Growing a Sustainable City? (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
208
Utgivningsdatum
2017-12-12
Förlag
University of Toronto Press
Dimensioner
226 x 152 x 13 mm
Vikt
318 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781442628557

Growing a Sustainable City?

The Question of Urban Agriculture

av Christina D Rosan, Hamil Pearsall
Häftad,  Engelska, 2017-12-12
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Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment. These objectives connect to many cities broader goal of sustainability, but tensions among stakeholders have started to emerge in cities as urban agriculture is incorporated into the policymaking framework. Growing a Sustainable City? offers a critical analysis of the development of urban agriculture policies and their role in making post-industrial cities more sustainable. Christina Rosan and Hamil Pearsalls intriguing and illuminating case study of Philadelphia reveals how growing in the city has become a symbol of urban economic revitalization, sustainability, and increasingly gentrification. Their comprehensive research includes interviews with urban farmers, gardeners, and city officials, and reveals that the transition to sustainability is marked by a series of tensions along race, class, and generational lines. The book evaluates the role of urban agriculture in sustainability planning and policy by placing it within the context of a large city struggling to manage competing sustainability objectives. They highlight the challenges and opportunities of institutionalizing urban agriculture into formal city policy. Rosan and Pearsall tell the story of change and growing pains as a city attempts to reinvent itself as sustainable, livable, and economically competitive.
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"This book is a solid contribution to this growing field and will be informative to those interested in the topic of urban farming, especially anybody working in public policy who intends to implement programs in their own city." -- John Harner, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs * The AAG Review of Books, Spring '19 *

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Christina D. Rosan is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. Hamil Pearsall is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Garden in the Urban Imaginary Chapter 2. Since the 1800s? A Historical Case Study of Urban Agriculture Chapter 3. Urban Agriculture as a Way towards a Better, Brighter Future Chapter 4. A New Generation of Growers Chapter 5. The Reality of Growing in the City Chapter 6. The Politics of Urban Agriculture Chapter 7: Conclusion

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