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Collaborative project: The Sustainability Contribution of Private Gardens to Cities - Status Quo and Perspectives for Horticulture via Citizen Science and Digital Applications - subproject B (CitiDigiSpace)
Project
Project code: 2818901B20
Contract period: 15.07.2022
- 14.07.2025
Budget: 330,334 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: sustainability, urban agriculture, environment and nature protection, digital world, horticulture, telecommunication/internet
Private gardens occupy a significant proportion of urban open space, and garden owners make up about 40% of the people in cities. In current social and environmental policy discourses, private gardens are very present, but often with negative connotations (gravel gardens, prohibition of single-family homes). For sustainable urban design, however, open spaces as well as people who use them have a considerable relevance. They strengthen health and life satisfaction, are meeting places for people and habitats for animals and plants. At the same time, private gardens have hardly been researched. The CitiDigiSpace project aims to address the function of private gardens in cities and the role of garden owners and to improve their sustainability contribution (ecological, social and economic) with the help of digital technologies. Using a CitiDigiSpace app including the latest LiDAR technology and a Citizen Science approach, the status quo of the functions and services of private gardens and the role of garden owners will first be described. Garden owners are the focus of the project, because their motivation and activation are the decisive levers for implementing more sustainability in private urban spaces.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
- Agroecology
