Urban gardens have emerged at the cracks and edges of the densely built environment of Metro Manila, taking on a variety of forms that cultivate a sense of habitability amid harsh urban conditions. The empirical diversity in the spaces, practices and trajectories of urban gardens in the city, however, often exceeds their usual framings either as state-sponsored projects from above that seek to transform individual dispositions, or as grassroots initiatives from below that result from conscious collective resistance or encroachment. Framing gardens as a locus to understand city-making amid massive urbanisation, this paper aims to provide a different account of urban gardens by focusing on how they emerge from a certain edginess, characterised by a coming together of various actions, aspirations and relations, and by a mode of practice marked by a distinctive temporality and peripheral logic. Using particular accounts of gardening from across Metro Manila, the paper demonstrates the edginess of urban gardens in terms of four articulations: as interstitial, provisional, transversal and experimental. Making a garden work and maintaining its place in the city entail consolidating relationships between various urban elements that carve spaces of manoeuvre, produce diverse eventualities, and map onto the indeterminate politics of the maybe.

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马尼拉大都会城市建设边缘的城市花园

城市花园出现在马尼拉大都会密集建筑环境的裂缝和边缘，呈现出各种形式，在恶劣的城市条件下培养出一种宜居感。然而，城市花园的空间、实践和轨迹的经验多样性往往超出了它们通常的框架，要么是国家资助的旨在改变个人倾向的项目，要么是来自有意识的集体的基层倡议。抵抗或侵犯。将花园作为理解大规模城市化中城市建设的场所，本文旨在通过关注它们如何从某种边缘中出现，提供对城市花园的不同描述，其特点是各种行动、愿望和关系的结合，以及以独特的时间性和外围逻辑为标志的实践模式。该论文使用马尼拉大都会地区园艺的特殊描述，从四个方面展示了城市花园的前卫性：间隙性、临时性、横向性和实验性。让花园发挥作用并保持其在城市中的位置需要巩固各种城市元素之间的关系，这些城市元素雕刻出机动空间，产生不同的可能性，并映射到不确定的可能政治上。