Allotmentgarden ; Dublin ; Food ; Food resources ; Inner city ; Ireland ; Regulation ; Social class ; Suburbs ; Twentieth Century ; Urban area
Allotments, more commonly called plots, were first laid out in inner city Dublin in the early 20th century. Their purpose was to allow ‘plotholders’ to grow vegetables primarily for their own use. A range of state and voluntary organisations
supported the allotment movement. Following the introduction of Government regulations in 1917, the number of allotments increased in an attempt to boost wartime food production. Following a decline in the early 1920s, the Acquisition of Lands (Allotments
) Act of 1926 spurred further growth. However, many allotments were lost to housing schemes, while new allotments were located further into the developing suburbs. Dublin Corporation continued to provide allotments, especially during the SecondWorldWar
. By 1949, however, the supply of allotments exceeded demand. This paper draws on government, trade and newspaper reports to consider the evolution of the allotment movement in Dublin during the first half of the twentieth century, illustrating the changing
Allotmentgarden ; Australia ; Canada ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Food production ; Garden ; Mexico ; Peru ; Place ; Turkey ; Vegetable cultivation
Actors and networks in urban community garden development
Allotmentgarden ; Association ; Decision making process ; Local authority ; Neo liberalism ; Network ; Participation ; Social network ; Theory ; Town ; United States of America ; Wisconsin
Alternative food initiatives which are commonly found in Ireland include allotments, community gardens, farmers' markets, farm shops and on-farm food enterprises. Understanding alternative food activities as a social movement can illuminate a fresh
initiatives, illustrated by two examples, a community garden and consumer food co-op. Finally some conclusions as to how alternative food initiatives may play a transformative role within the contemporary food system are discussed.
Worlds apart : common meanings in classical gardens of East and West
Cultural geography ; Cultural landscape ; Garden ; Green space ; Perception ; Planned landscape
The A. addresses conceptual similarities between European and Oriental gardens. Both traditions see the garden as an unlimited space, a strange world, and a series of suspensful events. People of different cultures all saw the garden as a model
Kaqchikel gardens : women, children, and multiple roles of gardens among the Maya of Highland Guatemala
Cultural landscape ; Ethnic community ; Feminism ; Garden ; Guatemala ; Small town ; Town ; Woman
A. seeks to fill a lacuna of kitchen gardens in Latin America by examining the role of women and children within those gardens and the non-material functions their production supports. Material aspects of gardens centered on provision of extra food
Gaarden, Entwichlung, Struktur und Sanierungsprobleme eines Kieler Arbeiterviertels. (Gaarden, development, structure and problems of renewal in a blue collar district of Kiel)
A case study of Gaarden on the eastern part of Kiel Harbour with its old close ties to the shipyard industry and modern urban renewal problems. (L'éd.).
Seeds for change? Attaining the benefits of community gardens through council policies in Sydney, Australia
Agriculture ; Australia ; Community ; Food production ; Garden ; Land use ; Neighbourhood ; New South Wales ; Spatial distribution ; Sydney ; Urban policy
This research looks at the elements that community garden policies should contain in order to best promote community gardens and attain their benefits. Focusing on Sydney, the research evaluates and compares the quality of the community garden
policies with the distribution of community gardens in local councils and across broader geographic regions. Councils or regions that might benefit from greater access to community gardens are identified and ways in which councils, and the Sydney Region
as a whole, might improve their community garden policies are discussed.
Cultivating, designing, and teaching : Jewish women in modern Viennese garden architecture
Architecture ; Austria ; Cultural landscape ; Garden ; Gardening ; Historical geography ; Jews ; Urban landscape ; Vienna
each consisting of a perennial nursery, a garden architecture studio and a horticultural school. Hanny Strauss ran a nursery in her radically modern house in 1914, and Helene Wolf operated a nursery and a garden architecture practice near Vienna. All
four garden architects created modern gardens in and around Vienna and cooperated with designers and architects from the Austrian Werkbund. They were violently expulsed in 1938–39.