Family Urban Agriculture in Russia Lessons and Prospects /

• Main Authors: Boukharaeva, Louiza M. (Author), Marloie, Marcel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Urban Agriculture,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Agriculture.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Sustainable development.; Social policy.; Life Sciences.; Urban Ecology.; Sustainable Development.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Social Policy.

A significant phenomenon that affects nearly two-thirds of Russian city-dwellers, family urban agriculture – with its allotment gardens, allotment vegetable gardens, and dacha allotments – grew out of a unique history and cultural representations. The contemporary Urban Grower in Russia holds a lega...

Table of Contents:

• Notice
• Preamble: Heal the World
• Chapter I. Introduction
• Chapter II. The palimpsest of urban gardening in Russia
• Chapter III. A new civil right won under the Soviet regime
• Chapter IV. A post-Soviet phenomenon
• Chapter V. The Russian Urban Grower: representations and practices
• Chapter VI. In favour of a new perspective
• Chapter VII. A continental rhizome: gardening policies and visions of society
• Chapter VIII. Western and Southern Europe viewed from a Russian perspective
• Chapter IX.  Universal meaning
• Annexes
• Annex 1. The capitals: Moscou, Saint-Pétersbourg, Kazan
• Annex 2. The collective gardens "War Veterans"
• Annex 3. The collective gardens "No. 7 of the Aircraft Engine Manufacturing Company/KMPO Kazan": massif Soukhaya rieka
• Annex 4. The collective gardens "Victoria Island"
• List of boxes, diagrams, documents, maps, photography’s, tables
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• General Summary.