Umkämpftes Grün: zwischen neoliberaler Stadtentwicklung und Stadtgestaltung von unten

In: De Gruyter eBook-Paket Sozialwissenschaften

In: Urban Studies

Abstract

'Urban gardening', that is, city-based and above all communal vegetable gardening, is often understood as a rebellious act of urban design from below. It is considered a particularly social form of togetherness or perceived as a means of making city districts more attractive. Using case studies primarily from German-speaking countries, the contributors to this volume deliver a critical analysis of such green urban activities and focus on their contested and often contradictory role in current processes of the neoliberalization of the urban