DeRuigeHof grassroots association is managing around 13 ha of peri-urban green space in the southeast of Amsterdam. The local community formed the association in the 1980s to protect a green space that had begun to appear on abandoned construction sites, which are owned by the municipality of Amsterdam. The municipality granted the association the right to manage two sites of the municipal land for a symbolic €1 lease agreement. The activities of the association have involved conservation management on meadows, woodland and wetland, which has enhanced the quality of this unplanned green space in terms of wildlife, biodiversity and the connection of local people to the site (source: (Ambrose-Oji et al. 2017)).