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作者

Gervaise Debucquet;Allan Maignant;Anne-Laure Laroche;Caroline Widehem;Philippe Morel

来源

CITIES,Vol.131,Issue1,Article 104007

语言

英文

关键字

Urban housing;Private gardening;Environmental awareness;Sustainable food;Multi-scalar urban planning

作者单位

AUDENCIA Business School, 8 Route de la Jonelière, 44312 Nantes, France;ASTREDHOR, 42 rue Georges Morel, 49071 Beaucouzé, France;AGROCAMPUS-Ouest, 2 Rue André le Notre, 49000 Angers, France;INRAE Pays de la Loire, 42 Rue Georges Morel, 49070 Beaucouzé, France;AUDENCIA Business School, 8 Route de la Jonelière, 44312 Nantes, France;ASTREDHOR, 42 rue Georges Morel, 49071 Beaucouzé, France;AGROCAMPUS-Ouest, 2 Rue André le Notre, 49000 Angers, France;INRAE Pays de la Loire, 42 Rue Georges Morel, 49070 Beaucouzé, France

摘要

Ongoing confinement for millions of urban citizens due to the Covid-19 pandemic has raised ecological consciousness, changed food habits and questioned the relationship urban dwellers have with nature. There is more interest in bringing plants into urban homes and in sustainable food sources, but no research have studied the relationships between food behaviours and plant-care activities. To address this gap and explore urban citizens' nature relatedness through the greening of private areas, we conducted a national survey of French, young urban citizens (n = 1000), who are more committed to ‘edible’ cities than older generations but have the lowest rate of plant purchasers. A quantitative approach reveals the prevalence of aesthetic/hedonistic expectations for plants in private housing but also demonstrates contrasting perceptions of tasks for plant maintaining and unequal valuation of social issues around plants. We discuss continuities between environmental awareness, commitment to sustainable food and natural/social uses of plants and argue that urban planning processes should address potential synergies for more integrative resilience. Community building around green areas, urban agriculture or collective gardens, in cities, can have ripple effects towards the greening of private housing. Lastly, the multi-disciplinary approach bridging psychosociology and urban studies can inspire multi-scalar urban planning.