Overview
- First major critical evaluation of guerrilla gardening in the UK
- Responds to increasing concerns for local food production and food security
- Urban agriculture, such as guerrilla gardening, could improve many spaces - large and small - in every town or city
Part of the book series: Urban Agriculture (URBA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book explores how unused and under-used urban spaces – from grass verges, roundabouts, green spaces – have been made more visually interesting and more productive, by informal (and usually illegal) groups known as “guerrilla gardeners”. The book focuses on groups in the English Midlands but the work is set in a broad international context and reveals how and why they undertake this illegal activity. Guerrilla gardening is usually viewed uncritically and promoted as a worthwhile activity: this study provides a more balanced evaluation and focuses on its contribution in terms of local food production.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Informal Urban Agriculture
Book Subtitle: The Secret Lives of Guerrilla Gardeners
Authors: Michael Hardman, Peter J. Larkham
Series Title: Urban Agriculture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09534-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09533-2Published: 15 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34791-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09534-9Published: 01 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2197-1730
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1749
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 208
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Urban Ecology, Sustainable Development, Social Structure, Social Inequality