By Louiza M. Boukharaeva, Marcel Marloie
The booklet effects from examine performed by means of the authors seeing that 1999 on city gardening collectives in Russia, then from the extension of this learn in the direction of collective city gardening in France, with a few investigations in different ecu Union Member States and Brazil. This study was once performed in the framework of Kazan collage (currently, the Institute of management and Territorial improvement of the Federal college of Kazan) and the French nationwide Institute for Agricultural examine (INRA). It enabled the construction of a world learn community entitled Sustainable improvement of towns: the connection among City-Dwellers and Nature. This examine was once constructed with support from a three-year examine agreement (October 2009 – September 2012) with the GESSOL programme of the French Ministry of Ecology, at the topic of using city and peri-urban soils for the sustainable improvement of towns. the ultimate file of this study agreement presents the root for the book.
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The noun usadba (усадьба in Russian) contains the radical sad (caд), which in English means “garden”, “gardening”, “to plant (a tree, flowers)”, “to grow vegetables”. g. at a table), “seat” (to be in one place—“the prince sat in Kiev”, meaning that the princely seat was located in Kiev). These terms refer to the shift from mobility to a settled way of life, from instability to stability, from the temporary to the sustainable. Initially, usadbas were given as presents by Princes or Tsars, who thus “planted” the men they had chosen on a particular land; the usadbas were then inherited, and later bought.
To understand the universal character of this experience, in particular to find out whether this form of family urban agriculture can provide an alternative to the suburban model, a critical reading of that experience is not sufficient. We must also be able to compare and contrast this with the reality of other experiences in other This dialogic principle was theorised by Mikhail Bakhtin in Russia (Boukharaeva 1997), Edgar Morin in France, and Paulo Freire in Brazil (Boukharaeva 2001). It applies first to the way of conducting surveys: considering that any research or training activity must be based on the knowledge of the people concerned and the living and concrete context of their existence.
The usadba could be a permanent residence or a holiday destination. Not subject to pre-established standards, the usadba owner was independent in the choice of forms and the architectural values in arranging his land and buildings. Raised in the spirit of the Enlightenment, he acted according to the principles and ideas of Nature 32 2 The Palimpsest of Urban Gardening in Russia and Reason, the value of the human being who should not suffer due to differences with others, with the exception of virtues and talents.
