CHAPTER 3
CASE STUDIES - GARDENS ON GROUND This chapter will look into community gardens as imperative vernacular assets for its users with two case studies centred
in the London Borough of Hackney. As well as the housing
affordability crisis in London, Hackney is one of many boroughs experiencing an exponential population increase as
the borough becomes an increasingly popular inhabitation
option, with 75% of the inhabitants living in flats but few have
access to their own green space56, and therefore rely on community gardens as a retreat. Since existing brownfield sites for housing development are scarce, the council are targeting at
least two dozen community gardens for the so-called ‘hous-
ing supply programme’. We start off with the Dalston Eastern
Curve Garden in Dalston and Daubeney Community Garden
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