Which forms of urban gardens are best suited for our current and future society? This study identified and evaluated possible future scenarios to provide city managers with strategies for successfully supporting urban gardening.
This study explored which present or imagined organizational forms of urban gardens are best suited to our current society. Possible future scenarios were identified and evaluated to provide city managers with strategies for successfully supporting urban gardening.
As a result of this study, we published several publications, for example:
- Klöti, T., Hofmann, M., Tappert, S., Indermühle, A., Bauer, N., Home, R., & Drilling, M. (2016). Gegenwart und Zukunft städtischen Gärtnerns in der Schweiz. Vereinigung Schweizerischer Stadtgärtnereien und Gartenbauämter VSSG. Full text (in German) available at: www.vssg.ch/documents/161221-UrbanGardening-WSL-FHNW-VSSG-Web-de.pdf
- Mathias Hofmann, Simone Tappert, Tanja Klöti, Rebekka Weidmann, Stéphanie Lichtsteiner, Robert Home. Urban gardens in Switzerland: current challenges and visions for the future. In: Growing In Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Gardening Conference, Basel, Switzerland. Ed. by Tappert, Simone. University of Applied Sciences, pp. 377-386, ISBN: 978-3-033-05757-9, Full text available at: urbanallotments.eu/events/basel-event/conference-proceedings.html
The work was conducted in cooperation with colleagues at the WSL, the FiBL, and the FHNW.
More information: wsl.ch/en/projects/small-urban-gardens.html
