Information on the Typology for Analysing Case Studies
The COST Action TU1201 is based on different case studies in Europe with specific areas of research in each case. Action's Working Groups interact inter-disciplinary in order to analyse the different case studies from social, ecological, design and development perspectives.
Each research partner submitted one or more case studies that their typologies of analysis are in line with the Action's four Research Areas.
Research Areas and relevant typology of analysis within case studies
| Research Area | Areas of focus and analysis within case studies |
|---|---|
| Planning & Policy | Consideration/neglect of allotments in planning and management issues. Reasons for neglect and loss of acceptance or consideration, ways to improve those such as land use value |
| Ecological | Provisions of ecosystem services (biodiversity, water cycle, micro-climatic regulation, etc.). Functions in the urban green network (habitat connection). AG role as potential connecting zones formed by the linear green zone along the infrastructure and their contribution to the biodiversity of the metropolitan region and relationship to the wider landscape. |
| Social-cultural | Recreational functions. Role in social integration and social sphere at neighbourhood level. Interrelations between allotment gardens and communities, differences concerning their relevance and social acceptance can be found in different European countries. Aspects of social compatibility/social sustainability that lead to focus on the contradiction between the planning principle "Urban Density" and the sociological principle "Social Cohesion”. Allotment gardening as cross-generation ‘learning places’, contributing to environmental awareness and proper environmental behaviour. Provision of facilities for organic gardening by AG practitioners. The role that specific AG play in the social tissue of the metropolis. The ways in which they contribute to the dynamics of the functioning of the city as temporary extensions of the home, the colonisation of grounds devalued by infrastructure development and related policies which reflect AG functioning. |
| Urban Design | How AG are situated in the infrastructural network and in the tissue of the city as a whole. How they relate to other green areas in the margins of the infrastructure. The typology of AG and how they relate to the neighbouring urban tissue? |