[Themaintainers] urban park maintenance work

[Atul Pokharel]

Hi Christoph,
 I second Lara's questions. From what you have indicated so far, your
case might have wider relevance to the urban planning community for
two reasons. First, there is little work on maintenance of the urban
form in general,  Second, there is even less work looking at the
"street level" - that is, focused on those who directly do the tasks
of maintenance (the gardeners in your case). I can think of some
parallels in different areas - forests in West Bengal, urban water
delivery systems in Ghana, "commons"  in different parts of the world
(usually in relation to natural resources).

 Of the American planning journals, the Journal of the American
Planning Association reaches a wide audience and your case could
possible be a shorter research note there. The other one I would look
at would be the journal Urban Studies.

thanks,
-atul

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Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service
NYU-Wagner




On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 7:40 AM,  <christoph at usp.br> wrote:
> Dear Maintainers,
>
> I have conducted an ethnographic research on the maintenance of Tiergarten,
> Berlin's oldest and most fascinating park,
> as my Master Thesis in Urban Design at TU Berlin.
>
> As far as I am concerned, there is little research on urban park maintenance
> work,
> although the conditions for the gardeners are changing dramatically.
>
> I would like to share my findings with a wider community,
> but the thesis is written in Germany, to a rather local audience, I guess.
>
> If you are aware of a journal/platform/etc. where I could submit a paper,
> summing up my findings in English, I would be glad to hear from you!
>
> Warm regards from Berlin,
> Christoph
>
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