Urban gardens are a form of self-provisioning, leisure and activist practice that is cropping up in cities around the world (Mougeot 2010). We present the history and contemporary terrain of Lisbon’s urban gardens and discuss the cultural values that gardeners attach to the practice of growing food in interstitial urban spaces. We present initial findings from our research with an urban gardeners’ association as it attempts to transform informal or clandestine garden spaces into an ‘urban agricultural park’. This coalition of gardeners from diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds is reclaiming land and using a participatory design process to create a shared space. They hope to grow vegetables and to re-grow ‘community’ by forging shared experiences in the neighbourhood. We describe how we used Photovoice as a process for exploring residents’ motivations in planting informal and community gardens on public land. What visions of sustainability and the contemporary city emerge from the practice of urban gardening? What kinds of urban gardening practices produce ‘communities of practice’ that cross ethnic, socioeconomic, and generational lines? The Photovoice approach allowed us to examine how gardeners conceptualise their use of urban space as they build new civic identities around gardening and make political claims to gain access and control over vacant land.

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培育公民生态：与葡萄牙里斯本的城市园丁一起进行语音研究

城市花园是一种自给自足，休闲和维权活动的形式，正在世界各地的城市中兴起（Mougeot 2010）。我们介绍了里斯本城市花园的历史和当代地形，并讨论了园丁对插页式城市空间中种植食物的实践所赋予的文化价值。我们向城市园丁协会提出了研究的初步发现，该协会试图将非正式或秘密的花园空间转变为“城市农业公园”。来自不同社会经济和种族背景的园丁联盟正在开垦土地，并使用参与式设计过程来创建共享空间。他们希望通过在社区中建立共享的经验来种植蔬菜并重新种植“社区”。我们描述了如何使用Photovoice作为探索居民在公共土地上种植非正式花园和社区花园的动机的过程。从城市园艺实践中出现了哪些关于可持续发展和当代城市的愿景？哪种城市园艺实践产生了跨越种族，社会经济和世代相传的“实践社区”？Photovoice方法使我们能够研究园丁在围绕园艺建立新的公民身份并提出政治主张以获取和控制空地的过程中如何概念化其对城市空间的使用。从城市园艺实践中出现了哪些关于可持续发展和当代城市的愿景？哪种城市园艺实践产生了跨越种族，社会经济和世代相传的“实践社区”？Photovoice方法使我们能够研究园丁在围绕园艺建立新的公民身份并提出政治主张以获取和控制空地的过程中如何概念化其对城市空间的使用。从城市园艺实践中出现了哪些关于可持续发展和当代城市的愿景？哪种城市园艺实践产生了跨越种族，社会经济和世代相传的“实践社区”？Photovoice方法使我们能够研究园丁在围绕园艺建立新的公民身份并提出政治主张以获取和控制空地的过程中如何概念化其对城市空间的使用。