Participatory Community Planning and Collaborative Governance in the Post-Growth Era: A Case Study of the Nanning Love-U Garden Network in China

Abstract

Collaborative governance of community regeneration is the essential need of the community as living space, and also provides an effective path for community spatial governance. This paper combs the connotation of collaborative governance and the necessity of community collaborative governance. Through the analysis of three typical cases of Nanning Love U Garden, this paper summarizes three types of community garden co-construction modes: external empowering type, internal and external collaboration type and internal autonomy type, and discusses three optimized mechanisms of the collaborative governance: whole-process participatory co-construction mechanism, flexible cooperation and co-maintenance mechanism, and differentiated co-financing mechanism. It has certain reference significance for other cities in China to build community garden networks, promote collaborative governance of community regeneration and promote sustainable development of communities.