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Aliseda 18. Un huerto comunitario procedente de la recuperación vecinal del espacio urbano

2013; Editorial Universidad de Sevilla; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.12795/habitatysociedad.2013.i6.06

2173-125X

Antonio Lattuca, R. Terrile,

Agricultural and Food Production Studies

The periphery of the city was urbanized leaving intermediate spaces that are nowadays discovered as opportunities to reincorporate agriculture in the city with environmental sustainability criteria that impact on food sovereignty and have the capacity to positively influence economies that were seriously affected by the economic crisis by using scarce resources. These intermediate spaces have the ability to regenerate neighbourhood relations by establishing a framework for the transformation of society towards more participatory models and to develop environmental education in an urbanite society that awakens the missing connections with the nature and mobilizes synergies amongst citizens. An academic research group and a neighborhood association started a process of citizen participation and recovery of degraded urban space in the peripheral neighbourhood of Puerta Bonita in Carabanchel (Madrid) in order to convert it into an urban community garden.