Family urban agriculture in Russia lessons and prospects /

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

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Main Author: Boukharaeva, Louiza M.,
Other Authors: Marloie, Marcel, 1944-, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2015.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 215 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Series: Urban agriculture (Springer (Firm))
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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.