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The six chapter analyzes the organizing, planning and governing of community gardens by looking at the social and economic situation of community gardeners, a variety of organizational aspects relating to community gardens as well as by looking at city planning from the perspective of the relationship of affordable housing, open space planning and community gardens.
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Money saved on food is commonly called “food dollars”.
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In Manhattan, 20 blocks have a distance of 1 mile in a north-south direction. In an east-west direction, one block in Manhattan is between 750 feet and 920 feet long.
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Today, community gardens situated on land under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks and Recreation are even mapped on Google Maps, but they have still not been categorized under a specific land use form and are consequently neither shown on zoning maps nor – since parks are not part of the zoning of New York City – parkland maps that exhibit traditional parkland by the Parks Department.
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Whether this insurance is still active or not was not answered upon my inquiry with GreenThumb in 2016.
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According to the zoning resolution, appendix A, parks – which are generally not designated as zones themselves – are attributed to use group 4, and are allowed in districts R1 to R10, C1 to C8, and M1.
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Even though some of the privately owned apartment buildings along the Grand Concourse were never abandoned, many other buildings in the area are still in need of renovation today simply because of their age, and not because of the destruction caused by the landlords or tenants.
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Mees, C. (2017). Organizing, Planning and Governing Community Gardens. In: Participatory Design and Self-building in Shared Urban Open Spaces. Urban Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75514-4_6
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