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Prof Michael Hardman's Outputs (33)

Urban agriculture : evaluating informal and formal practices (2018)
Journal Article
Hardman, M., St. Clair, R., Adams, D., Armitage, R., Barry, V., Larkham, P., & Sherriff, G. (2018). Urban agriculture : evaluating informal and formal practices. North West geography (Online), 18(1), 1-10

Urban agriculture (UA) is a fast-increasing element in many settlements in the Global North. This paper reviews the diversity of UA activity, ranging from legal to illegal, formal to informal. Focusing particularly on current research on UA projects... Read More about Urban agriculture : evaluating informal and formal practices.

Guerrilla gardening and green activism : rethinking the informal urban growing movement (2017)
Journal Article
Hardman, M., Lovemore, C., Magidimisha, H., Larkham, P., Scott, A., & Armitage, R. (2018). Guerrilla gardening and green activism : rethinking the informal urban growing movement. Landscape and Urban Planning, 170, 6-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.08.015

Green activism and guerrilla gardening lie at the more informal end of the urban food growing movement, but
little is known about the extent of this practice or the future of such unplanned activities. Accordingly, this paper
firstly explores a ran... Read More about Guerrilla gardening and green activism : rethinking the informal urban growing movement.

The trouble with temporary : impacts and pitfalls of a meanwhile community garden in Wythenshawe, South Manchester (2017)
Journal Article

The rise of Urban Agriculture projects across the UK has led to a surge of interest in
their efficacy and resulting social impacts. Real Food Wythenshawe is a Lottery-funded
urban food project in the UK that aims to teach the population of Wythensh... Read More about The trouble with temporary : impacts and pitfalls of a meanwhile community garden in Wythenshawe, South Manchester.

Exploring guerrilla gardening: gauging public views on the grassroots activity (2014)
Journal Article
Adams, D., Hardman, M., & Larkham, P. (2014). Exploring guerrilla gardening: gauging public views on the grassroots activity. Local Environment, 20(10), 1231-1246. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2014.980227

The literature on guerrilla gardening is developing rapidly. The majority of these
accounts currently derive from North America, with little academic exploration
apparent beyond this context: they focus explicitly on the grass-roots gardeners and... Read More about Exploring guerrilla gardening: gauging public views on the grassroots activity.

Evaluating the cumulative impact problem in spatial planning : a case study of wind turbines in Aberdeenshire, UK (2014)
Journal Article
Scott, A., Shannon, P., Hardman, M., & Miller, D. (2014). Evaluating the cumulative impact problem in spatial planning : a case study of wind turbines in Aberdeenshire, UK. Town Planning Review, 85(4), 457-488. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2014.27

The problem of cumulative impact (CI) is an under-researched issue in spatial planning theory and practice with important implications for sustainability. This paper investigates how cumulative impact is addressed within the Scottish planning system... Read More about Evaluating the cumulative impact problem in spatial planning : a case study of wind turbines in Aberdeenshire, UK.

The rise of the ‘food charter’ : a mechanism to increase urban agriculture (2014)
Journal Article
Hardman, M., & Larkham, P. (2014). The rise of the ‘food charter’ : a mechanism to increase urban agriculture. Land Use Policy, 39, 400-402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.02.022

Urban agriculture (UA) is rapidly growing in popularity and significance across the Western hemisphere. For over two decades North Americans have embraced the concept, although in Europe the idea of UA has only recently gained attention from academic... Read More about The rise of the ‘food charter’ : a mechanism to increase urban agriculture.

Guerrilla warfare in the planning system: revolutionary progress towards sustainability? (2013)
Journal Article
Adams, D., Scott, A., & Hardman, M. (2013). Guerrilla warfare in the planning system: revolutionary progress towards sustainability?. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 95(4), 375-387. https://doi.org/10.1111/geob.12031

This article extends Qviström’s (2007; Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 89 (3): 269–282) ideas concerning “landscapes out of order” within a re-discovering and re-imagining of spatial planning theory and practice. Taking
the viewpoint... Read More about Guerrilla warfare in the planning system: revolutionary progress towards sustainability?.

Observing guerrillas in the wild : reinterpreting practices of urban guerrilla gardening (2013)
Journal Article
Adams, D., & Hardman, M. (2014). Observing guerrillas in the wild : reinterpreting practices of urban guerrilla gardening. Urban Studies, 51(6), 1103-1119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013497410

Despite an emerging literature on guerrilla gardening as a political practice in public spaces, with few exceptions, these accounts theorise it as working against many corporate
and bureaucratic forms of power. Using the example of ‘F Troop’—a group... Read More about Observing guerrillas in the wild : reinterpreting practices of urban guerrilla gardening.

Disintegrated development at the rural–urban fringe: Re-connecting spatial planning theory and practice (2013)
Journal Article

The spaces where countryside meets town are often amongst society's most valued and pressured places which together form the rural–urban fringe (RUF). A ‘messy’ yet opportunistic space in policy and decision making processes, the RUF remains confused... Read More about Disintegrated development at the rural–urban fringe: Re-connecting spatial planning theory and practice.