Urban gardening and governance

Space is becoming increasingly limited on Earth. With around 7.55 billion people, the world's population is higher than ever before in history. However, this growth is far from reaching its peak. Against the backdrop of these figures, it is clear that inner-city areas will face new challenges in the future. Questions regarding the availability of living space and green spaces, the urban climate, social coexistence in our globalised cities and food supply are coming to the fore. Urban gardening offers one approach to tackling these issues. The creation of such a project now increasingly rarely follows the conventional hierarchical forms of coordination and decision-making and, due to the networking of a wide variety of organisations, institutions and individuals, draws on more alternative forms of decision-making and implementation. Nevertheless, attempts to permanently establish such projects on inner-city brownfield sites are often fraught with problems. This is precisely where this thesis aims to start.