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Green urban cemeteries: more than just parks

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  • Margrete Skår
  • Helena Nordh
  • Grete Swensen

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Inspired of Lefebvre’s and De Certau’s perspectives on social production of space, this study aims to explore cemeteries’ functions in urban life nowadays. Our starting point is that green urban cemeteries have two main functions: their primary purpose is as a burial ground, while their secondary function is as public spaces for reflections, recreation, and cultural encounters. We ask for whom the cemeteries are designed and managed, and in what ways they are actually used. To explore these questions, qualitative data from two cemeteries in Oslo is analyzed. Both visitors and people passing through the sites were interviewed during the summer of 2014 about their intention to be at the cemetery and their views about the place. We point to a series of positive measures rather than forbidden signs that should be instigated to help promoting the great potential green urban cemeteries have for citizens and a future sustainable city.

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  • Margrete Skår & Helena Nordh & Grete Swensen, 2018. "Green urban cemeteries: more than just parks," Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(3), pages 362-382, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjouxx:v:11:y:2018:i:3:p:362-382
    DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2018.1470104
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    1. Ágnes Sallay & Zsuzsanna Mikházi & Imola Gecséné Tar & Katalin Takács, 2022. "Cemeteries as a Part of Green Infrastructure and Tourism," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(5), pages 1-28, March.
    2. Nalle, Victor Imanuel W. & Moeliono, Tristam Pascal, 2023. "Spatial injustice in the context of cemeteries: The case of Surabaya, Indonesia," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    3. Andrzej Długoński & Diana Dushkova & Dagmar Haase, 2022. "Urban Cemeteries—Places of Multiple Diversity and Challenges. A Case Study from Łódź (Poland) and Leipzig (Germany)," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(5), pages 1-22, May.
    4. Stanford, Hugh R. & Hurley, Joe & Garrard, Georgia E. & Kirk, Holly, 2024. "Finding the forgotten spaces: Using a social-ecological framework to map informal green space in Melbourne, Australia," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 141(C).
    5. Długozima Anna & Kosiacka-Beck Ewa, 2020. "How to Enhance the Environmental Values of Contemporary Cemeteries in an Urban Context," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-19, March.
    6. Tanja M. Straka & Maren Mischo & Konstantin J. S. Petrick & Ingo Kowarik, 2022. "Urban Cemeteries as Shared Habitats for People and Nature: Reasons for Visit, Comforting Experiences of Nature, and Preferences for Cultural and Natural Features," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-21, August.
    7. Julia Konic & Franz Essl & Bernd Lenzner, 2021. "To Care or Not to Care? Which Factors Influence the Distribution of Early-Flowering Geophytes at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Austria)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-15, April.
    8. Allam, Zaheer, 2019. "The city of the living or the dead: On the ethics and morality of land use for graveyards in a rapidly urbanised world," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).

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