(Ebook) The Socio-cultural and ecological perspectives on landscape and gardening in Urban Environment: A narrative review by Ph.D. Candidate PATRICK CHUKWUEMEKE UWAJEH and Ph.D. Candidate IKENNA STEPHEN EZENNIA ISBN 9780415317481, 0415317487

(Ebook) The Socio-cultural and ecological perspectives on landscape and gardening in Urban Environment: A narrative review by Ph.D. Candidate PATRICK CHUKWUEMEKE UWAJEH and Ph.D. Candidate IKENNA STEPHEN EZENNIA ISBN 9780415317481, 0415317487

This review offers a perspective on the role landscape and gardening play in urbansettings from a socio-cultural, and ecological dimension. The practice of cultivatingin gardens, parks and vacant lots, creates community spaces, and are increasinglybecoming important to peoples’ experience of social and cultural wellbeing. Inrecent times, this has become a major focus of research in ecology, agriculture,urban design, landscape architecture, human geography, and sociology.Community gardening is one of the avenues toward revitalizing urbanenvironments, and it provides a way of addressing multi-faceted urban problemsranging from limited food access to safety and community cohesion. That beingsaid, it is necessary to continually evaluate the roles which society, ecology, andculture play in cities and landscape planning due to the dynamic nature of culture.This article aims to bring to the fore, the various factors of landscape andgardening practices in cities and the dynamics of cultural and ecological effectsthey have in building communities, reclaiming communities or engendering apersonal place to thrive. A narrative review of the literature on peer-reviewedarticles within the scope of the study was adopted as the research method.JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2018) 2(2), 78-89.https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4673