Urban Vacant Land and Community Access
Editor's Introduction
Transformation of Urban Vacant Lots for the Common Good: an Introduction to the Special Issue
Peleg Kremer and Zoé Hamstead
Special Topic Articles: Urban Vacant Land and Community Access
Inventorying Land Availability and Suitability for Community Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin
Francis Eanes and Stephen J. Ventura
Cities, Gardening, and Urban Citizenship: Transforming Vacant Acres into Community Resources
Matthew DelSesto
Facilitating Social-Ecological Transformation of a Vacant Lot on an Urban Campus: the Houston-Congolese Connection
Sister Damien Marie Savino
Developing a Vacant Property Inventory through Productive Partnerships: A University, NGO, and Municipal Planning Collaboration in Trenton, New Jersey
Luke Drake, Beth Ravit, and Laura Lawson
Practitioner Notes
From Open Data to Open Space: Translating Public Information Into Collective Action
Paula Z. Segal Esq.
Urban Agriculture between Pioneer Use and Urban Land Grabbing: The Case of “Prinzessinnengarten” Berlin
Marco Clausen
Supporting Our Land Stewards: Building a Constituency to Change Policy and Preserve Philadelphia’s Gardens
Amy Laura Cahn Esq.
The Land Trust Solution: How Baltimore Green Space Uses Land Ownership to Help Neighborhoods
Miriam Avins
Self Help Nuisance Abatement in Baltimore City
Becky Lundberg Witt
Permanently Grassroots with NeighborSpace
Ben R. Helphand
Coupling Benefits: Strategies for Vacant Land Reuse along Cleveland's Opportunity Corridor
Jeffrey Kruth
Feeding Citizenship: strategies for accessing and transforming spaces
Gaëlle Janvier and Justin Doucet
Editorial
Cities and the Environment: Eight Years of Urban Ecology Research and Practice
Eric G. Strauss, Laurel Hunt, Michele Romolini, and Dexter H. Locke