Producing space, cultivating community: the story of Prague's new community gardens

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F17%3A10364058" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/17:10364058 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10460-017-9782-z" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10460-017-9782-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10460-017-9782-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10460-017-9782-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Producing space, cultivating community: the story of Prague's new community gardens

Original language description

This paper aims to fill the gap in literature concerning community gardens in post-communist countries by focusing on the situation in Prague, Czechia. It introduces Prague&apos;s newly emerged community gardens and presents the results of a first representative survey of these gardens. Information was gathered about eleven of the sixteen larger community gardens and the data were collected by semi-structured interviews with the managers of the particular gardens. The paper compares the Czech community gardens as representatives of civic agriculture forms in post-communist countries with their counterparts (mainly those in the North America) and stresses their similarities and differences. The results show that the new community gardens reflect much of what can be seen elsewhere in terms of spatial and organizational design, as well as reasons for starting them, motivations for participation and some of the challenges experienced. However, in contrast to many community gardens in the USA, Canada and UK that focus on food and nutrition provision, in Prague the community is more of a priority than food and the other mentioned benefits. The paper shows that different activities, events and functions make gardens important hubs of their communities and potential tools of further community involvement and social change.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-03796S" target="_blank" >GA17-03796S: Food and the city: The geography of urban agriculture in the Czech context</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Agriculture and Human Values

ISSN

0889-048X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

887-897

UT code for WoS article

000414778800007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85016984933