The loss of land devoted to allotment gardening: The context of the contrasting pressures of urban planning, public and private interests in Prague, Czechia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F16%3A10314281" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/16:10314281 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.12.031" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.12.031</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.12.031" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.12.031</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The loss of land devoted to allotment gardening: The context of the contrasting pressures of urban planning, public and private interests in Prague, Czechia

Original language description

Prague, the capital of Czechia, has a long history of allotment gardening, however, since 1989 allotment gardens are diminishing at a considerable rate. Allotments are being transformed into recreation sites, permanent residences, or used for the construction of residential projects, transportation infrastructure or commercial facilities. Often, they simply turn into vacant land. This paper critically assesses the decline of allotment gardens in Prague. The analysis is based on an extensive field survey. Land use changes of allotment gardens in Prague were monitored during three time periods and the main reasons and motives that have led to a diminution of gardening as a sustainable productive and recreational function during the nineties and the first decade of the new millennium are presented (construction of second homes, transformation to residential dwelling, destruction). The need for a much broader community and civic movement involvement in the planning decision-making processes is viewed as crucial to secure the continuity of the allotment gardens within the city. A successful case of negotiation with local government and further conversion of one of Prague's threatened allotment garden colonies into public access garden is then presented as a suitable solution to the problems with allotment gardens' extinction.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DE - Earth magnetism, geodesy, geography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP404%2F12%2F0470" target="_blank" >GAP404/12/0470: Geography of alternative food networks and sustainable consumption</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Land Use Policy

ISSN

0264-8377

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

52

Issue of the periodical within the volume

march

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

232-239

UT code for WoS article

000372387900021

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84953714469