Guerilla Gardening: fantastic green spaces in the city!

(by inhabitat.com)

Most people don´t expect any wild green spaces in the city. But there are more and more people that seem to like the idea of having many single green spots where normally, there is only a grey stony house desert.
I think I´ve heard of this method about one year ago and was immediately hooked. Imagine, your new hobby is strolling around the town and putting seeds and smalls plants everywhere, isn´t that too sweet?
But the idea is actually much older: it became popular in New York in the 70s, when the city raised taxes on the rents, and several houses were at risk to be left without hirers. So people became active and thought about what they could do to rescue these houses. They began grassing the houses and the surrounding areas, so people were attracted again who then moved into the once deserted appartments.
Today, guerilla gardening is a sign of political activism, but people do it also out of a desire for more green in general. Or out of a will for a more sustainable planet. To show, how important plants are, and this not only in the countryside, but were everyone can see it. There are more and more green activists, who do guerilla gardening as their personal act of justice towards the environment.