Adams, D., & Hardman, M. (2014). Observing guerrillas in the wild: Reinterpreting practices of urban guerrilla gardening. Urban Studies (Edinburgh, Scotland), 51(6), 1103-1119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013497410[1]
Assessment of source BEFORE I Read it:
This is source is has a link to a viable DOI so it should be seen as reliable. It was published in a journal that accumulates other journals article like a sort of database! This specific article as listed as a research article so it should be reliable.
Assessment of Source AFTER I Read It: This article goes in depth about the intersection of how poverty, discrimination, and a lack of third spaces can end up creating the environment that encourages political action like guerilla gardening.
Iveson, K. (2013). Cities within the city: Do-it-yourself urbanism and the right to the city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(3), 941-956. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12053[2]
Assessment of source BEFORE I Read it: This source was from an international academic journal and has a DOI. Although the journal accepts article drafts from many different careers, only articles that heavily tie into researching urban and regional intersections and the inner workings of these systems function are accepted for publication.
Assessment of Source AFTER I Read It: This article talks about how despite the public theoretically having access to walk and travel through public spaces, the same cannot be said for the permission to customize or have involvement in the layout of public spaces. The article promotes the benefits of guerilla gardens and creating green spaces that anyone can make.
Apostolopoulou, E., & Kotsila, P. (2022). Community gardening in hellinikon as a resistance struggle against neoliberal urbanism: Spatial autogestion and the right to the city in post-crisis athens, greece. Urban Geography, 43(2), 293-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1863621[3]
Assessment of source BEFORE I Read it: This source has a DOI and published in an urban geography journal that has a focus on political topics. Thus I think this article from the synopsis and from the journal it is published in is releveant and reliable.
Assessment of Source AFTER I Read It: This article discusses the issues of how public spaces are managed, the the way the increase of inaccessible public spaces influences the way these spaces are used, and the ways that guerilla gardening gives power to the public.
Assessment of source BEFORE I Read it: This source
Assessment of Source AFTER I Read It: This article focuses more on the ways that guerilla gardening shifts the way abandoned spacs are used and why these gardens are successful in creating third spaces.
Hardman, M., Chipungu, L., Magidimisha, H., Larkham, P. J., Scott, A. J., & Armitage, R. P. (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[5]
Assessment of source BEFORE I Read it:This article has a DOI link and is published in a journal that focuses on urban planning with an impact factor of 7.9 which shows that articles published in this journal are frequently read and used to inform further urban planning projects and research.
Assessment of Source AFTER I Read it: This article brings up the way radical action , in the case, guerilla gardening has on how authorities address the communities they should be serving along with how forms of protest can eventually be adopted and made legitimate practices.
Assessment of source BEFORE I Read it: This article has a DOI link and is published in a journal that specializes and encourages papers to discuss sociopolitical and cultural issues that tie into or influence design.
Assessment of Source AFTER I Read It: This paper discusses the ways in which forms of political action on small scales such as seedballs ties into the intersection of minority groups and how they can create a stronger connection and awareness of the natural environment.
Newspaper Sources
Hayden-Smith, T. (2022-5-25). Guerrilla gardening took me back to my roots – and to the chelsea flower show. The Guardian (London)[7]
Assessment of source BEFORE I Read it: The Guardian is a well know and usually left-leaning news source that is well known and read.
Assessment of Source AFTER I Read It: This article describes the use of garden spaces as a way to frequently bring members from a community together and create a third space. The article also mentions how these spaces that were once unused can be converted into beautiful spaces via nature!
Assessment of source BEFORE I Read it: I am not aware of the Toronto Star but skimmed through the article and did not find any bias against the use of guerilla gardening.
Assessment of Source AFTER I Read It: This article will tie well into adding more detail on why guerilla gardening occurs in urban spaces where the pressures of food scarcity, lack of access to greenery, and the desire to grow one's own produce despite a lack of space often conflicts with city zoning policy.
'I call it botanarchy': The hackney guerrilla gardener bringing power to the people; for author ellen miles, planting in public spaces is a radical act that's about community ownership and belonging. (2023, ). The Guardian (London)[9]
Assessment of source BEFORE I Read it: The Guardian is a well know and usually left-leaning news source that is well known and read.
Assessment of Source AFTER I Read It: i think this article hsa a solid exploration on how guerilla gardening is not only something anyone can do but a fun and usually harmless. It also mainly fills a large content gap when it comes to this form of environmental protest bringing together people and strengthening communities.
'the system is the problem, not people': How a radical food group spread round the world; incredible edible's guerrilla gardening movement encourages people to take food-growing -- and more -- into their own hands. (2024, ). The Guardian (London)[10]
Assessment of source BEFORE I Read it: The Guardian is a well know and usually left-leaning news source that is well known and read.
Assessment of Source AFTER I Read It: This article discusses how guerilla gardening can take a step further from political rebellion and make way for long-term public rights to garden and grow vegetation in public spaces which is something that is missing in the current article.
