From community gardening to green space volunteering: three figures of corporeal participation to the making of urban space
This paper addresses the institutionalisation and normalisation of urban gardening in municipal green space policies. It uses urban gardening as a lens onto the various shapes that corporeal participation in the making of cities takes. Drawing upon a comparison between two municipal urban gardening...
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L’Harmattan
2018
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| Summary: | This paper addresses the institutionalisation and normalisation of urban gardening in municipal green space policies. It uses urban gardening as a lens onto the various shapes that corporeal participation in the making of cities takes. Drawing upon a comparison between two municipal urban gardening programmes in the canton of Geneva (Switzerland), the paper identifies three broad figures: the integration of collective gardens into a tactical urbanism aimed at producing temporary urban forms; the outsourcing of green space maintenance to citizens via volunteering programmes; and the shift toward corporate volunteering as an indicator of the development of a new urban entrepreneurialism that blurs the line between city space and corporate space as well as between environmentalism and corporate team-building. |
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