Resumen de Urban gardening and spatial justice from a mid-size city perspective: the case of Ortobello Urban Garden

Giuseppe Aliperti, Silvia Sarti

• The concept of justice is strongly related to present-day conditions that are constantly influenced by class, race and gender, and are able to generate a locational discrimination on certain groups of the population (Soja, 2009 ). Starting from the 1970s, the term spatial justice has been introduced in order to describe this kind of phenomenon. Spatial justice has been initially investigated by focusing on the territorial dimension of urban politics (O’Laughlin, 1973 ; Pirie, 1983 ; Reynaud, 1981 ; Soja, 2009 ).