ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ways in which urban spaces are being reproduced and reimagined via social movements and community interventions for the expansion of urban agriculture and, in particular, community gardens. It focuses on community gardeners, as part of active social movements in urban Australia. The chapter explores the urban context which is driven by the commitment to a better understanding of the acute challenges facing cities alongside urbanisation as global populations become more urbanised, including in Australia, and the role that community development practice might have in meliorating such challenges. It describes Lefebvre's work on the social production of space provides an especially adept analytical framework for theorising the potential of social movements and associated community interventions in appropriating hitherto city-dominated or controlled spaces for social cohesion and food production. The chapter also discusses findings from primary qualitative interview data collected from two city case studies of community and market gardeners, city councillors and urban designers.
