Urban Gardeners’ Motivations in a Metropolitan City: The Case of Milan

Giordano Ruggeri, Chiara Mazzocchi and Stefano Corsi
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Giordano Ruggeri: Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Milan, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy
Chiara Mazzocchi: Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Milan, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy
Stefano Corsi: Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Milan, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 11, 1-19

Abstract: Urban gardening (UG) as a component of urban agriculture (UA) has reached popularity during the last decades. This growing interest depends on several factors including the different functions that have been attributed to UG over the years, operating from the economic to the social, health and cultural levels. While multifunctionality of UG is well documented, only a few studies investigated individual gardeners’ motivations, which can be subjective and heavily affected by the local context in which it takes place. The paper aims to detect some peculiar features of Milan city gardeners, in order to highlight the motivations of their activity through an innovative and replicable approach based on multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA). The analysis has been applied to the Milan case study, in the North of Italy; the results suggest a great importance of the social component of UG, and trace some different gardeners’ profiles.

Keywords: urban agriculture; urban gardening; food planning; multiple correspondence analysis; survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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