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A place to breathe in the dense city : community gardening and participatory urbanism in Paris
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Benjamin, Carrie Ann (2020) A place to breathe in the dense city : community gardening and participatory urbanism in Paris. Sociální studia / Social Studies, 17 (1). pp. 55-70. doi:10.5817/SOC2020-1-55 ISSN 1214-813X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.5817/SOC2020-1-55
Abstract
Community gardens have emerged in Paris as a way to create green spaces in the city’s densely populated working-class neighbourhoods. One such garden is the Goutte Verte, a temporary, nomadic community garden that, with the agreement of the city and its developers, occupies vacant lots awaiting the construction of new-build social housing. The continued existence of the Goutte Verte is placed in opposition to much-needed housing in the city, with poor, unemployed, and middle-class gardeners alike caught between a desire for green space and a demand for comfortable housing. Drawing on participant observation and interviews conducted in 2013–14 and 2019, I demonstrate how community gardens act as a material alternative to urban planning and governance that often fail to account for a right to a “place to breathe” in the city – a situation that is increasingly fraught as city planners treat new construction as the primary solution for affordable housing in Paris.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform S Agriculture > SB Plant culture |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Community gardens, Community gardens -- Social aspects -- France -- Paris, Urban gardens , Urban gardens -- Social aspects -- France -- Paris, Land use, Urban , Land use, Urban -- France -- Paris, Community development, Urban , Community development, Urban -- France -- Paris | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Sociální studia / Social Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Masaryk University | ||||||
ISSN: | 1214-813X | ||||||
Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||
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Volume: | 17 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 55-70 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.5817/SOC2020-1-55 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 July 2020 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 July 2020 | ||||||
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