Speaker: Is There Still Space for Community Gardens?

How can cities find places for community gardens in the face expanding cities and roads?

Preserving spaces for community gardens is becoming ever more challenging, according to Sarah Moos, an award-winning urban designer.

Moos will discuss the issue at noon Wednesday in an address titled “Reclaiming Remnant Urban Spaces” at Scripps College.

“As cities construct more freeways and homes, small unused patches of land become ubiquitous and remain as the only viable spots for open public spaces,” event organizers wrote in a news release.

Moos currently works as a design contractor at Bionic, a landscape architecture and planning firm in San Francisco, organizers wrote.

She received a bachelor’s degree with honors in studio art and environmental analysis from Scripps College and completed a dual master’s degree in landscape architecture and city and regional planningstudent at the University of California, Scripps officials said.

In her master’s thesis, she proposes solutions intent on transforming derelict sites into vital public open spaces that would improve the quality of life of a southeastern neighborhood in San Francisco, officials said.

The address is scheduled to be held the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons, 345 E. Ninth St. The free lecture is open to the public.