Radical Urban Horticulture for Food Autonomy: Beyond the Community Gardens Experience

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For those who are interested in radical changes, it is important to analyze the forms of resistance that promote self"managed practices, also at apparently very small scale. In Italy the experience of "community gardens" is usually named "orti urbani". In the last 10Â years, the occupation of abandoned urban spaces to set up orti urbani has increased within the squatting movement. The case of the city of Rome is interesting because there has been a widespread activity to organize self"managed spaces to grow fruit and vegetable plants. These initiatives make up not only potential spaces of dense social networking, political action and discussion on environmental issues, but also supporting large food autonomous configurations such as Genuino Clandestino, that are challenging dominant food production. A proliferation of orti urbani located in Social Centers, squatted houses or other abandoned spaces represents a scalar strategy to re"appropriate and commune urban space.

» Author: Pierpaolo Mudu, Alessia Marini

» Source: Wiley

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