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SPACE
24-1, 2002
Brian RUSTED
Introduction
Tim B. ROGERS
Henri Lefebvre, Space and Folklore
Julie PAQUETTE
Expérience
spatiale et bien-être urbain : le cas des jardins communautaires montréalais
Curtis D. HIRSH
Green
Organizing in Austin, Texas: Place-Ballet and the Rhetorical Community, 1990 - 1999
Laurent JÉRÔME
Les
itinéraires de l'exclusion pour un groupe de sans-abri
Cheryl TEELUCKSINGH
Spatiality and Environmental Justice in Parkdale
Alfred G. MUELLER II
Constructing Power Architecturally: A Spatial Look at Uniate Catholicism in Kyiv Today
Carole ROSENSTEIN
An
Object in its Own Domain
Martine GERONIMII
Le French Market à la Nouvelle Orléans : Alibi patrimonial et mise en scène
touristique d'un espace préservé
Benjamin R. BATES
The
New York Yankees and the Conservative Use of Space
Valérie FOURNIER, Geoff LIGHTFOOT
Stages of busi(-)ness and identity
Stephanie WHITE
Performance
and Memory: the Trans-Canada Highway and the Jumping Pound Grade Separator, Alberta
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Expérience spatiale et bien-être
urbain : le cas des jardins communautaires montréalais
Julie Paquette
Université de Montréal
This article analyses the connections that certain Montrealers maintain with community gardens. By studying a little
understood place that attracts many city dwellers, the objective is to explore how local sites continue to present
meaningful places for people in a world that is more and more globalized. The phenomenological approach provides
a conceptual frame. This perspective privileges the study of the actual environment and the engaged experience
of social actors in the elaboration and the perception of their milieu. Through the analysis of the narratives
of city dweller gardeners, we discovered that individuals who search for urban well-being make comfort zones in
the city through these community gardens. This study examines the multiple ways of conceiving community gardens
that seem to be modeled as much by sociocultural dynamics specific to Montreal as they are by the singular make-up
of these places and the life trajectories of their users. The study illustrates that urban spaces are realities
with which the inhabitants interact: it understands city dwellers as social actors, who, beyond sociological forces,
possess some control over their environment.
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