GreenHer

GreenHer analyzes the heritage dynamics of allotments and gardens located in European urban peripheries. It is based on the idea that gardens represent an important emerging heritage, contributing to the greening of the urban environment, greater biodiversity, to the mitigation of climate change, to food education, to the improvement of diet and food cultures, as well as neighborhood sociability in the neighborhood – offering a sense of belonging and mutual support. However, their lack of recognition as heritage sites and their location on the outskirts of metropolitan areas subject to land and property pressure make them vulnerable. In recent years, they have been the subject of social demands from local residents who are fighting for their preservation and conservation. Based on a comparative study of six urban & metropolitan peripheries (Paris, Madrid, Edinburgh, Bologna, Kraków, Leuven), the project studies these allotments and their emergence as a shared local heritage, and as an alternative scenario for metropolitan development, through the prism of their appropriation by local residents, in a context of pressures for urban redevelopment and densification.