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This paper examines the introduction of urban agriculture as a medium for gradual urbanization, collaboration, exchange and identification of new multicultural urban inhabitants, especially immigrants originating from rural areas. The paper, after defining the state of urban agriculture for today’s urbanism, examines the terms multiculturality, transculturality and multifunctionality in continuously productive urban voids and peri-urban areas. It also describes intercultural gardens in Germany, proposes the concept of transcultural gardens and presents six not yet realized projects in Greece.
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Definition: Luc Mougeot, International Development Research Centre. It is officially used by the UN-HABITAT Urban Management Programme, FAO, CIRAD.
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Karanastasi, E. (2011). Transcultural Gardens—A Proposal for Exploitation of Urban Voids as Intensively Productive Land and as a Method of Urbanization of Minorities: Case Studies Demonstrating Design Tools and Managing Methodology. In: Behnassi, M., Shahid, S., D'Silva, J. (eds) Sustainable Agricultural Development. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0519-7_8
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