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Community Gardens in Zagreb, Croatia: Old/new practices for the local sustainability

Community gardens are a long-time present phenomenon in the City of Zagreb’s (Croatia) landscape. The city inhabitants have self- initiatively transformed the underused public urban areas into their own gardens. Until now, these processes of “alternative urbanizations” of public spaces have occurred mainly outside of formal governmental frame. A new city policy named “City Gardens” which regulates allotments of urban public parcels to the city dwellers interested in such projects was adopted in 2012. This policy allowed a larger number of city residents to participate in community gardening actions. Previous research on this topic showed multiple benefits and positive impacts of community gardens on the individual, local community and urban space. Their popularity is constantly growing in the last decade which can be understood in the light of recent “hot” issues concerning sustainable urban development, food security, social isolation and preservation of public areas.

Community gardens, Zagreb, local sustainability

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