Continuity and Change: Socio-Spatial Practices in Bamberg's World Heritage Urban Horticulture

The German city of Bamberg offers lessons in how continuity and change interact within the context inner-urban land use commercial horticulture, thereby informing sustainable urban transformations historic cities. case shows that food production is not just well-established, but a consistent centuries-old cultural structure influences fabric today’s city. In this article, we discuss what forms horticulture (and thus also production) are evident from Bamberg’s past which may prevail future. Two questions our analysis. First, historical sites spatial structures shaped tension between change? Second, practices/forms taken up they updated by actors? Both heritage contemporary practices it argued, can be conceived as resource to create places ways life for citizens. new contributions result work. article highlights ongoing dimensions field still dominated eco-technical associated with post-industrial innovation planning; respect, should recognised dynamic shapes change. addition, secondly, application Luhmannian concepts evolution social systems reinforces interdependence settings.