Urban agriculture, experiencing a resurgence across the Global North, features prominently in food system sustainability and urban resilience discourse, planning, and policy. Research, however, indicates that racialized gentrification tends to accompany urban agriculture, similar to a phenomenon documented with other green space. This study used remote sensing to map home (N = 478) and community (N = 130) gardens across Detroit, an emblematic legacy city undergoing significant redevelopment. Despite being a city in which seventy-eight percent of the residents are Black, spatial regression revealed that gardens in Detroit are actually more prevalent in non-Black-neighborhoods. Community gardens predominate in neighborhoods where residents are younger, wealthier, and college-educated, while home gardens are more numerous in areas with high rates of home ownership. Modeling also indicated that gardens are in areas with limited access to fresh produce. Contrary to the literature, we did not find a correlation between the presence of gardens and potential gentrification. Gardens, however, are consistently more prevalent in neighborhoods that have stabilized after experiencing high rates of vacancy, foreclosure, and housing demolition. These results have three important implications. First, redevelopment processes in legacy cities such as Detroit, through urban agriculture and other green infrastructure, are likely to lead to garden distributions different than those found in cities with more typical development trajectories. Second, the research calls into question generalized assumptions that expanding green space inevitably leads to gentrification, necessitating deeper investigation of these dynamics in diverse urban settings. And finally, racialized narratives around gardens and redevelopment risk undermining long-standing connections between Detroit’s gardens and environmental justice.

城市农业在全球北部经历了复苏，在粮食系统可持续性和城市复原力的讨论、规划和政策中占有突出地位。然而，研究表明，种族中产阶级化往往伴随着城市农业，类似于其他绿地记录的现象。这项研究使用遥感绘制了底特律的家庭 (N = 478) 和社区 (N = 130) 花园地图，底特律是一个正在经历重大重建的标志性遗产城市。尽管是一个 78% 的居民是黑人的城市，但空间回归显示底特律的花园实际上在非黑人社区中更为普遍。社区花园在居民年轻、富裕和受过大学教育的社区中占主导地位，而在房屋拥有率高的地区，家庭花园更多。建模还表明，花园位于新鲜农产品供应有限的地区。与文献相反，我们没有发现花园的存在与潜在的高档化之间存在相关性。然而，在经历了高空置率、丧失抵押品赎回权和房屋拆除率之后已经稳定下来的社区中，花园一直更为普遍。这些结果具有三个重要意义。首先，通过城市农业和其他绿色基础设施，底特律等传统城市的重建过程可能会导致花园分布与具有更典型发展轨迹的城市不同。第二，该研究质疑普遍假设，即扩大绿色空间不可避免地会导致高档化，因此需要对不同城市环境中的这些动态进行更深入的调查。最后，围绕花园和重建的种族化叙述可能会破坏底特律花园与环境正义之间的长期联系。