The challenge of turning unsightly parts of the cityscape into small oases of greenery and community in the Czech capital has been taken up for the first time by a Prague architect and his project to launch an urban allotment in the industrial district of Holešovíce. While the urban gardening concept is already mature in cities as far apart as Melbourne, New York and London, Matěj Petránek’s inspiration came from photographs of the phenomenon in Helsinki.