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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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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dates: | Date Event 2020 Published 17 April 2020 Accepted |
| 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 open licence) |
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 July 2020 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 July 2020 |
| RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: | Project/Grant ID RIOXX Funder Name Funder ID |
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| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/139031/ |
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