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      iDuring the twentieth century, Edinburgh allotment holders engaged in repeated efforts to defend their gardens against competing land uses. Allotment movement appeals for security of tenure and municipal investment mobilised different strategic representations of allotments’ functional and symbolic value. This thesis traces five interwoven narrative strands, which represent coexisting but often conflicting versions of the allotment. These strands of meaning and motive cohere around the following themes: poor relief and social reform; recreation and leisure; urban ecology and town planning; land rights activism; and, patriotic national self provisioning. Parliamentary allotment inquiries in 1921 and 2001 bracket my analysis Tags:                agriculture_urbaine            