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© Leila Marie Farah

The Edible Campus project demonstrates that underutilized concrete spaces can be unobtrusively made edible with little effort and low cost.

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Photograph by Jonathan Gales ©Bohn & Viljoen Architects 2008

A market and massive “continuous” picnic held to show how urban food production and public space can be combined advantageously in central London.

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A system for the transformation of vacant lots into community gardens using plastic bags filled with dirt, seeds, and water.

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A kitchen garden planted in a simple wood structure on Copenhagen’s office park harbour front.

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Installed elements in Colombo, Minimum Cost Housing Group of McGill University, 2005 Photo: K.A. Jayaratne

A participatory project to preserve and upgrade a five-hundred-family shantytown on the edge of Columbo while improving residents’ access to water and integrating agricultural spaces for the produc

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Plan Smarter

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The Greening of Detroit offers educational programs connecting residents with planting organizations, and runs tree and productive planting sessions along streets and in parks.

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A recycled and recyclable installation in the P.S. 1 courtyard, Public Farm One is a stage for the museum’s summer music series and a model for vertical farming in the city.

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Plan Smarter

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Plant the Piece is a symbolic seed-bomb production project.

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© N55

A reusable seed-bomb dispersal system, the N55 PROTEST Rocket can carry a 2-kilogram payload to an altitude of over 5 kilometres.

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© Helen Nodding

Operation: Ivy League is a project to plant ivy on corporate London architecture. It is a natural appropriation organized by residents and commuters as an attack on dull and homogeneous buildings.

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Stamford Street and Blackfriars Road, London, planted with sunflowers, 2008 © Richard Reynolds

Richard Reynolds, or Richard 001, as he is known in the Guerillagardening.org organization, descends on traffic islands, forgotten parks, public gardens, and roadway edges with troops around the wo

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Victory Garden Trike and Gardener, January 2007. © Amy Franceschini

A pilot project for productive planting, Victory Gardens revived eponymous programs created in the United States, Canada, and Britain for producing food during the First World War.

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Guerrilla

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© Fallen Fruit

Love Apples is the experimental settlement of Los Angeles traffic islands by tomato plants. Some of the most visible land in the city, traffic islands are marginal, ignored, and rarely planted.

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Guerrilla

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Seed bombs are mixtures of clay, humus, and seeds designed to sustain seed growth – like the yolk of an egg – until the plant can interact with the environment.

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Guerrilla

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© Notacornfield. Courtesy the Annenberg Foundation.

An urban agriculture project that sought to reconnect residents of Los Angeles with their natural environment.

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Vacant spaces at 56 Sainte-Blaise transformed with neighbours, 2007 – 2008 © aaa

Two ‘social construction’ projects directed by the atelier d’architecture autogérée for neighbourhoods in Paris that lacked green space.

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Nance Klehm, Foraging Montréal, 2009 photo: CCA

Train tracks can be wild corridors where plants grow because they are in the heart of the industrialized city: trains move long distances and generate strong local winds, carrying along pollen and

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Excess

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