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Rebuilt Rubble - Community Gardens in the South Bronx from 1970s to the 21st century: Common land use in the inner city from a socio-economic open space planning perspective. (2015)
Mees, Carolin
My doctoral thesis with the title „Rebuilt Rubble - Community Gardens in the South Bronx from 1970s to the 21st century: Common land use in the inner city from a socio-economic open space planning perspective” is focused on the assumption that people are longing for and are committed to a common urban open space land use form in the inner city – a hypothesis that I investigated by analyzing the development of community gardens in the study area South Bronx from the 1970s to the 21st century. My thesis is contextualized in the research fields of social open space planning and urban design. The analysis is based on qualitative data collection that encompasses census data, plans, open interviews and participatory observation and includes the discussion of secondary literature regarding community gardens and urban open space development in the South Bronx. Since the urbanization and industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century residential space in densely build-up inner cities, and especially in low-income neighborhoods, has been reduced often to a minimum, and privately usable open space is absent in many cases. Starting with the global economic recession of the 1970s in the urban centers of North American cities such as New York City there have been privately, but collectively used gardens created on public open land. These so called community gardens were started by low-income residents on vacant property lots in the vicinity of their apartments in order to improve their quality of life and in answer to the “neglect” of their neighborhoods by the government and municipality. Today there are about 600 community gardens in the metropolitan area of New York City and 44 gardens alone in the area called South Bronx, the study area of my thesis. I analyze in my thesis the development of this common land use in the study area South Bronx from a social-economic and open planning perspective. The case study of my research is focused on community gardening and the “casita”, the small hut that low-income residents with Latin American and Caribbean cultural background build themselves out of found and recycled materials in many community gardens in the South Bronx. My thesis researches the development of community gardens in the South Bronx since the 1970s influenced by often conflicting interests of various land use groups, residents and city planning agendas until today. It is a document of the humans’ need for common urban open space land use and of their commitment to the community garden land use form in the inner city.
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