"With guerrilla gardening means a form of political gardening, a form of nonviolent direct action,
practiced mostly by environmental groups. These movements are usually related to permaculture or
to issues concerning land rights. The activists point out a piece of abandoned land, which
not belong to him, to make us grow plants or cultures. ...
Two celebrated gardeners of this type, active before the coinage of the term "Guerrilla gardening" were
Gerald Winstanley and The Diggers (the diggers) in Surrey, England, in 1649, and John Chapman called "apple seed" in Ohio USA, in 1801. "
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_gardening
" New York, like Beijing, London or Paris, in their drive towards the city of total ...
leave gaps, fragments, breaks, commercial distractions. ...
There are gardens, large as entire blocks as small as a flower bed, which arise through the initiative of
groups or individuals, motivated by the desire and need to revitalize run-down areas of the metropolis
, neglected by the course of interest of time left in a state of neglect.
In a small neighborhood of Manhattan called Loisaida these gardens are numerous and spontaneous
for outstanding variety, multiplicity and complexity of expression of the inventive solutions. "
Gardens in Manhattan. Gardensdi Stories guerrilla Michela Pasquali - Bollati Boringhieri - 2008
Loisaida. NYC Community Gardens. Ediz. italiana e inglesedi Pasquali Michela, Maffi Mario, Venturi Ferriolo Massimo - A+MBookstore - 2006
Guerrilla Gardening, alcuni esempi :
Green Guerilla (Guerriglia verde),
Anno 1973
Attivisti: attorno alla figura di Liz Christy nasce il gruppo Green Guerilla
Occupazione: parte di città abbandonata
Luogo: area di Bowery Houston a New York . Dopo trent'anni questo spazio è ancora ben tenuto
http://www.lizchristygarden.org/
"Pure genius!!” (ECO VILLAGE WANDSWORTH)
Year: 1996
activists: 500 affiliates with "The Land is Ours" (the land is ours),
Occupation: 13 acres of land. On this earth has grown a community called "Pure genius!" (After a few months were evicted)
Location: banks of the Thames in Wandsworth, south London, the
http://www.tlio.org.uk/campaigns/ Wandsworth / # contents whaapp.html
Have på en nat (Garden in a night)
Year: 1996
Activist: Økologiske Igangsættere, but about 1000 people took part in the project
Employment: A piece of land vacuum was turned into a garden in a single night
Location: in the middle of the city of Guldbergsgade in Nørrebro, Copenhagen
"Let London Shoots" The First
May 2000 A few thousand "gardeners" occupied Parliament Square in London by planting flowers and vegetables
Shovels Badola
Year 2007
activists: group Shovels Badala
Occupation: piazza Baldissera, Torino
Sites:
http://www.communitygarden.org/
http://www.greenthumbnyc.org/
http:// www.nyrp.org/
http://www.treebranch.com/
http://www.tpl.org/
http://www.citizensnyc.org/
http://www.cenyc.org/
http://www.earthcelebrations.com/
http://www.evpcnyc.org/index2.html
http://www.justfood.org/
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/
http://www.guerrillagardening.it/
http://www.cris.it/allegati/id_28_ilgiardinoditutti_web.pdf
http://www.greenguerrilla.altervista.org/
http://publicspace.ca/gardeners.htm
http://www.primalseeds.org/guerrilla.htm
http://www.gruenewelle.org/
http://brussels-farmer.blogspot.com/
http://www.greenguerillas.org/
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