[HTML][HTML] Does urban agriculture improve food security? Examining the nexus of food access and distribution of urban produced foods in the United States: A systematic …

A Siegner, J Sowerwine, C Acey - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
The aim of our review is to critically analyze the urban agriculture and urban food systems
literature in order to understand the impact of urban-produced foods on community food …

Past results and future directions in urban community gardens research

D Guitart, C Pickering, J Byrne - Urban forestry & urban greening, 2012 - Elsevier
Globally, rapid urbanisation has substantially reduced the amount of viable agricultural land–
a food security issue. Food security is bringing a renewed scholarly interest in community …

Radical, reformist, and garden-variety neoliberal: coming to terms with urban agriculture's contradictions

N McClintock - Local Environment, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
For many activists and scholars, urban agriculture in the Global North has become
synonymous with sustainable food systems, standing in opposition to the dominant industrial …

Urban community gardens as spaces of citizenship

R Ghose, M Pettygrove - Antipode, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of literature conceptualizes urban agriculture and community gardens as
spaces of democratic citizenship and radical political practice. Urban community gardens …

Organizations as complex adaptive systems: Implications of complexity theory for leadership research

M Schneider, M Somers - The Leadership Quarterly, 2006 - Elsevier
This article contrasts the assumptions of General Systems Theory, the framework for much
prior leadership research, with those of Complexity Theory, to further develop the latter's …

Features and functions of multifunctional urban agriculture in the global north: a review

F Orsini, G Pennisi, N Michelon, A Minelli… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, urban agriculture (UA) projects have bloomed throughout the world, finding
large applications also in the developed economies of the so-called Global North. As …

Community volunteering as neoliberal strategy? Green space production in Berlin

M Rosol - Antipode, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The task for critical urban research is to analyze processes of neoliberalization “on the
ground”. This paper examines—based on original empirical research—in how far the …

Review and analysis of the benefits, purposes, and motivations associated with community gardening in the United States

C Draper, D Freedman - Journal of Community Practice, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Community gardens have been a part of modern American culture since the late 19th
century. Participation in community gardening has ebbed and flowed in response to …

Urban home food gardens in the Global North: Research traditions and future directions

JR Taylor, ST Lovell - Agriculture and human values, 2014 - Springer
Abstract In the United States, interest in urban agriculture has grown dramatically. While
community gardens have sprouted across the landscape, home food gardens—arguably an …

Ecosystem services of urban agriculture and prospects for scaling up production: A study of Detroit

JP Newell, A Foster, M Borgman, S Meerow - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban agriculture provides a range of ecosystem services (as well as potential disservices).
This study examines the spatial extent, physical characteristics, and residents' perceptions of …