Robert L. France is a world-renowned scientist in the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University, where he teaches courses on urban agriculture, ecohydrology, watershed management, conservation biology, and environmental restoration. For more than a decade he taught and conducted research on landscape architecture, land-use planning, and urban design at the Harvard Design School. Dr. France is the author or editor of twenty-two books and more than two hundred journal articles on a wide range of environmental subjects, which together have been cited more than ten thousand times in the professional literature. In 2010, he organized the first international academic conference on urban agriculture in Canada, which led to the publication of the edited volume Integrated Urban Agriculture: Precedents, Practices, Prospects. His previous book with Wageningen Academic Publishers is about the pre-plastic environmental history of fishery bycatch: Disentangled: Ethnozoology and Environmental Explanation of the Gloucester Sea Serpent.

• Table of contentsPreface - Situating urban agriculture tours in time and 'splace' 13References 16AcknowledgementsPart 1 - Background 21Chapter 1. Place - Plants - People: the paradigm of regenerative agrourbanism as waymarked through ten formative books 231.1 Agrourbanism: 'talkin' 'bout ... [re]generation' 231.2 Agrorestorative nucleus 251.2.1 Agriculture 251.2.2 Restoration 271.3 Regenerative constituents 301.3.1 Place 301.3.2 Plants 311.3.3 People 33References 35Chapter 2. Narrative scholarship and peripatetic phenomenology as landscape research 392.1 Sensorial embodied experience 392.2 Thick descriptions 402.3 Walking methodology 42References 44Part 2 - Visits 47Chapter 3. Healing economies: business and tourism 493.1 Commercial enterprises 493.1.1 London Cru Urban Winery (London, UK) 513.1.2 Brother Nature Produce (Detroit, MI, USA) 533.1.3 Hope Blooms (Halifax, NS, Canada) 543.1.4 Dill's Pumpkin Farm (Windsor, NS, Canada) 563.1.5 Fresh City Farms (Toronto, ON, Canada) 583.1.6 Very Local Greens (Dartmouth, NS, Canada) 613.1.7 Food from the Sky (London, UK) 643.1.8 GrowUp Box Urban Farms (London, UK) 673.1.9 FARM:shop (London, UK) 703.1.10 Valley Grown Salads (Harlow, UK) 733.1.11 Zero Carbon Food (London, UK) 773.1.12 Lufa Farms (Montreal, PQ, Canada) 803.1.13 Case study lessons 863.2 Food market tourism 873.2.1 Plaza de Armas (Ancud, Isla Chiloe, Chile) 893.2.2 The Goods Shed (Canterbury, UK) 913.2.3 Kensington Market (Toronto, ON, Canada) 933.2.4 Haymarket (Boston, MA, USA) 953.2.5 Farmers' Markets (Halifax, NS, Canada) 973.2.6 Eastern Market (Detroit, MI, USA) 1003.2.7 Feria Alcalde Jose Sandoval Gomez (Castro, Isla Chiloe, Chile) 1023.2.8 St. Lawrence Market (Toronto, ON, Canada) 1043.2.9 Mercado do Bolhao (Porto, Portugal) 1073.2.10 El Mercadeo Central (Valencia, Spain) 1093.2.11 Borough Market (London, UK) 1123.2.12 Mercado de La Boqueria (Barcelona, Spain) 1163.2.13 Markthal (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) 1203.2.14 Case study lessons 125References 126Chapter 4. Healing connections: hope and education 1314.1 Community sustaining gardens 1314.1.1 Cultivate London (London, UK) 1334.1.2 The Stop's Earlscourt Community Garden and Food Centre (Toronto, ON, Canada) 1354.1.3 D-Town Farm (Detroit, MI, USA) 1394.1.4 Regent Park Health Centre Community Garden (Toronto, ON, Canada) 1424.1.5 Aghios Dimitrios Municipal Garden (Athens, Greece) 1434.1.6 Brightmoor Alliance Youth Garden (Detroit, MI, USA) 1464.1.7 Southside City Farm (Providence, RI, USA) 1494.1.8 Kipos3 Community Garden and Urban Vineyard (Thessaloniki, Greece) 1524.1.9 Common Roots Urban Farm (Halifax, NS, Canada) 1554.1.10 Case study lessons 1604.2 Educational farms 1614.2.1 Kentish Town City Farm (London, UK) 1644.2.2 Hackney City Farm (London, UK) 1664.2.3 Vauxhall City Farm (London, UK) 1694.2.4 Surrey Docks Farm (London, UK) 1724.2.5 Mudchute Park and Farm (London, UK) 1754.2.6 Spitalfields City Farm (London, UK) 1794.2.6 Case study lessons 185References 186Chapter 5. Healing art: beautifully grown food 1895.1 Art-filled gardens 1895.1.1 Dalston Eastern Curve Garden (London, UK) 1915.1.2 Fenway Victory Gardens (Boston, MA, USA) 1945.1.3 Case study lessons 1985.2 Artful gardens 1995.2.1 Edible Estates (London, UK) 2015.2.2 The Edible Bus Stop (London, UK) 2035.2.3 Abbey Gardens (London, UK) 2065.2.4 Carrot Green Roof and Garden (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2105.2.5 Lafayette Greens (Detroit, MI, USA) 2145.2.6 Case study lessons 219References 219Chapter 6. Healing heritage: restoring agri-culture 2236.1 Heritage and homage 2236.1.1 Spryfield Kidston Urban Farm (Halifax, NS, Canada) 2266.1.2 Zorbis Office and Apartment Building (Athens, Greece) 2286.1.3 Chiswick House Kitchen Garden (London, UK) 2306.1.4 Riverdale Farm (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2326.1.5 Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum (Halifax, NS, Canada) 2346.1.6 Norsk Folkmuseum (Oslo, Norway) 2386.1.7 Case study lessons 2416.2 Civitas 2426.2.1 Woodlands Farm Trust (London, UK) 2446.2.2 Farm Centre's Legacy Garden (Charlottetown, PEI, Canada) 2466.2.3 Mikveh Israel Agriculture School (Tel Aviv, Israel) 2506.2.4 Les Hortillonnages (Amiens, France) 2526.2.5 Yedikule Gardens (Istanbul, Turkey) 2556.2.6 Parc Agrai de Baix Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain) 2586.2.7 Case study lessons 263References 263Chapter 7. Healing sites and societies: regenerative landscape design 2657.1 Structures and sites 2657.1.1 60 Richmond Street Housing (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2677.1.2 King's Cross Central Skip Garden (London, UK) 2687.1.3 Hellinikon Airport Community Garden (Athens, Greece) 2717.1.4 Greensgrow Farms (Philadelphia, PA, USA) 2747.1.5 Evergreen Brick Works (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2797.1.6 Artspace Wychwood Barns (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2847.1.7 Allen Street Garden (Boston, MA, USA) 2887.1.8 PERKA (Thessalonki, Greece) 2907.1.9 Mill Creek Farm (Philadelphia, PA, USA) 2927.1.10 Case study lessons 2957.2 Souls and societies 2967.2.1 Natural Growth Project (London, UK) 2987.2.2 Forty Hall Vineyard (London, UK) 3027.2.3 ReVision Urban Farm (Boston, MA, USA) 3067.2.4 Earthworks Urban Farm (Detroit, MI, USA) 3097.2.5 Detroit Dreams (Detroit, MI, USA) 3137.2.6 Case study lessons 322References 323

Robert L. France is a world-renowned scientist in the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University, where he teaches courses on urban agriculture, ecohydrology, watershed management, conservation biology, and environmental restoration. For more than a decade he taught and conducted research on landscape architecture, land-use planning, and urban design at the Harvard Design School. Dr. France is the author or editor of twenty-two books and more than two hundred journal articles on a wide range of environmental subjects, which together have been cited more than ten thousand times in the professional literature. In 2010, he organized the first international academic conference on urban agriculture in Canada, which led to the publication of the edited volume Integrated Urban Agriculture: Precedents, Practices, Prospects. His previous book with Wageningen Academic Publishers is about the pre-plastic environmental history of fishery bycatch: Disentangled: Ethnozoology and Environmental Explanation of the Gloucester Sea Serpent.

• Table of contentsPreface - Situating urban agriculture tours in time and 'splace' 13References 16AcknowledgementsPart 1 - Background 21Chapter 1. Place - Plants - People: the paradigm of regenerative agrourbanism as waymarked through ten formative books 231.1 Agrourbanism: 'talkin' 'bout ... [re]generation' 231.2 Agrorestorative nucleus 251.2.1 Agriculture 251.2.2 Restoration 271.3 Regenerative constituents 301.3.1 Place 301.3.2 Plants 311.3.3 People 33References 35Chapter 2. Narrative scholarship and peripatetic phenomenology as landscape research 392.1 Sensorial embodied experience 392.2 Thick descriptions 402.3 Walking methodology 42References 44Part 2 - Visits 47Chapter 3. Healing economies: business and tourism 493.1 Commercial enterprises 493.1.1 London Cru Urban Winery (London, UK) 513.1.2 Brother Nature Produce (Detroit, MI, USA) 533.1.3 Hope Blooms (Halifax, NS, Canada) 543.1.4 Dill's Pumpkin Farm (Windsor, NS, Canada) 563.1.5 Fresh City Farms (Toronto, ON, Canada) 583.1.6 Very Local Greens (Dartmouth, NS, Canada) 613.1.7 Food from the Sky (London, UK) 643.1.8 GrowUp Box Urban Farms (London, UK) 673.1.9 FARM:shop (London, UK) 703.1.10 Valley Grown Salads (Harlow, UK) 733.1.11 Zero Carbon Food (London, UK) 773.1.12 Lufa Farms (Montreal, PQ, Canada) 803.1.13 Case study lessons 863.2 Food market tourism 873.2.1 Plaza de Armas (Ancud, Isla Chiloe, Chile) 893.2.2 The Goods Shed (Canterbury, UK) 913.2.3 Kensington Market (Toronto, ON, Canada) 933.2.4 Haymarket (Boston, MA, USA) 953.2.5 Farmers' Markets (Halifax, NS, Canada) 973.2.6 Eastern Market (Detroit, MI, USA) 1003.2.7 Feria Alcalde Jose Sandoval Gomez (Castro, Isla Chiloe, Chile) 1023.2.8 St. Lawrence Market (Toronto, ON, Canada) 1043.2.9 Mercado do Bolhao (Porto, Portugal) 1073.2.10 El Mercadeo Central (Valencia, Spain) 1093.2.11 Borough Market (London, UK) 1123.2.12 Mercado de La Boqueria (Barcelona, Spain) 1163.2.13 Markthal (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) 1203.2.14 Case study lessons 125References 126Chapter 4. Healing connections: hope and education 1314.1 Community sustaining gardens 1314.1.1 Cultivate London (London, UK) 1334.1.2 The Stop's Earlscourt Community Garden and Food Centre (Toronto, ON, Canada) 1354.1.3 D-Town Farm (Detroit, MI, USA) 1394.1.4 Regent Park Health Centre Community Garden (Toronto, ON, Canada) 1424.1.5 Aghios Dimitrios Municipal Garden (Athens, Greece) 1434.1.6 Brightmoor Alliance Youth Garden (Detroit, MI, USA) 1464.1.7 Southside City Farm (Providence, RI, USA) 1494.1.8 Kipos3 Community Garden and Urban Vineyard (Thessaloniki, Greece) 1524.1.9 Common Roots Urban Farm (Halifax, NS, Canada) 1554.1.10 Case study lessons 1604.2 Educational farms 1614.2.1 Kentish Town City Farm (London, UK) 1644.2.2 Hackney City Farm (London, UK) 1664.2.3 Vauxhall City Farm (London, UK) 1694.2.4 Surrey Docks Farm (London, UK) 1724.2.5 Mudchute Park and Farm (London, UK) 1754.2.6 Spitalfields City Farm (London, UK) 1794.2.6 Case study lessons 185References 186Chapter 5. Healing art: beautifully grown food 1895.1 Art-filled gardens 1895.1.1 Dalston Eastern Curve Garden (London, UK) 1915.1.2 Fenway Victory Gardens (Boston, MA, USA) 1945.1.3 Case study lessons 1985.2 Artful gardens 1995.2.1 Edible Estates (London, UK) 2015.2.2 The Edible Bus Stop (London, UK) 2035.2.3 Abbey Gardens (London, UK) 2065.2.4 Carrot Green Roof and Garden (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2105.2.5 Lafayette Greens (Detroit, MI, USA) 2145.2.6 Case study lessons 219References 219Chapter 6. Healing heritage: restoring agri-culture 2236.1 Heritage and homage 2236.1.1 Spryfield Kidston Urban Farm (Halifax, NS, Canada) 2266.1.2 Zorbis Office and Apartment Building (Athens, Greece) 2286.1.3 Chiswick House Kitchen Garden (London, UK) 2306.1.4 Riverdale Farm (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2326.1.5 Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum (Halifax, NS, Canada) 2346.1.6 Norsk Folkmuseum (Oslo, Norway) 2386.1.7 Case study lessons 2416.2 Civitas 2426.2.1 Woodlands Farm Trust (London, UK) 2446.2.2 Farm Centre's Legacy Garden (Charlottetown, PEI, Canada) 2466.2.3 Mikveh Israel Agriculture School (Tel Aviv, Israel) 2506.2.4 Les Hortillonnages (Amiens, France) 2526.2.5 Yedikule Gardens (Istanbul, Turkey) 2556.2.6 Parc Agrai de Baix Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain) 2586.2.7 Case study lessons 263References 263Chapter 7. Healing sites and societies: regenerative landscape design 2657.1 Structures and sites 2657.1.1 60 Richmond Street Housing (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2677.1.2 King's Cross Central Skip Garden (London, UK) 2687.1.3 Hellinikon Airport Community Garden (Athens, Greece) 2717.1.4 Greensgrow Farms (Philadelphia, PA, USA) 2747.1.5 Evergreen Brick Works (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2797.1.6 Artspace Wychwood Barns (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2847.1.7 Allen Street Garden (Boston, MA, USA) 2887.1.8 PERKA (Thessalonki, Greece) 2907.1.9 Mill Creek Farm (Philadelphia, PA, USA) 2927.1.10 Case study lessons 2957.2 Souls and societies 2967.2.1 Natural Growth Project (London, UK) 2987.2.2 Forty Hall Vineyard (London, UK) 3027.2.3 ReVision Urban Farm (Boston, MA, USA) 3067.2.4 Earthworks Urban Farm (Detroit, MI, USA) 3097.2.5 Detroit Dreams (Detroit, MI, USA) 3137.2.6 Case study lessons 322References 323

Robert L. France is a world-renowned scientist in the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University, where he teaches courses on urban agriculture, ecohydrology, watershed management, conservation biology, and environmental restoration. For more than a decade he taught and conducted research on landscape architecture, land-use planning, and urban design at the Harvard Design School. Dr. France is the author or editor of twenty-two books and more than two hundred journal articles on a wide range of environmental subjects, which together have been cited more than ten thousand times in the professional literature. In 2010, he organized the first international academic conference on urban agriculture in Canada, which led to the publication of the edited volume Integrated Urban Agriculture: Precedents, Practices, Prospects. His previous book with Wageningen Academic Publishers is about the pre-plastic environmental history of fishery bycatch: Disentangled: Ethnozoology and Environmental Explanation of the Gloucester Sea Serpent.

• Table of contentsPreface - Situating urban agriculture tours in time and 'splace' 13References 16AcknowledgementsPart 1 - Background 21Chapter 1. Place - Plants - People: the paradigm of regenerative agrourbanism as waymarked through ten formative books 231.1 Agrourbanism: 'talkin' 'bout ... [re]generation' 231.2 Agrorestorative nucleus 251.2.1 Agriculture 251.2.2 Restoration 271.3 Regenerative constituents 301.3.1 Place 301.3.2 Plants 311.3.3 People 33References 35Chapter 2. Narrative scholarship and peripatetic phenomenology as landscape research 392.1 Sensorial embodied experience 392.2 Thick descriptions 402.3 Walking methodology 42References 44Part 2 - Visits 47Chapter 3. Healing economies: business and tourism 493.1 Commercial enterprises 493.1.1 London Cru Urban Winery (London, UK) 513.1.2 Brother Nature Produce (Detroit, MI, USA) 533.1.3 Hope Blooms (Halifax, NS, Canada) 543.1.4 Dill's Pumpkin Farm (Windsor, NS, Canada) 563.1.5 Fresh City Farms (Toronto, ON, Canada) 583.1.6 Very Local Greens (Dartmouth, NS, Canada) 613.1.7 Food from the Sky (London, UK) 643.1.8 GrowUp Box Urban Farms (London, UK) 673.1.9 FARM:shop (London, UK) 703.1.10 Valley Grown Salads (Harlow, UK) 733.1.11 Zero Carbon Food (London, UK) 773.1.12 Lufa Farms (Montreal, PQ, Canada) 803.1.13 Case study lessons 863.2 Food market tourism 873.2.1 Plaza de Armas (Ancud, Isla Chiloe, Chile) 893.2.2 The Goods Shed (Canterbury, UK) 913.2.3 Kensington Market (Toronto, ON, Canada) 933.2.4 Haymarket (Boston, MA, USA) 953.2.5 Farmers' Markets (Halifax, NS, Canada) 973.2.6 Eastern Market (Detroit, MI, USA) 1003.2.7 Feria Alcalde Jose Sandoval Gomez (Castro, Isla Chiloe, Chile) 1023.2.8 St. Lawrence Market (Toronto, ON, Canada) 1043.2.9 Mercado do Bolhao (Porto, Portugal) 1073.2.10 El Mercadeo Central (Valencia, Spain) 1093.2.11 Borough Market (London, UK) 1123.2.12 Mercado de La Boqueria (Barcelona, Spain) 1163.2.13 Markthal (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) 1203.2.14 Case study lessons 125References 126Chapter 4. Healing connections: hope and education 1314.1 Community sustaining gardens 1314.1.1 Cultivate London (London, UK) 1334.1.2 The Stop's Earlscourt Community Garden and Food Centre (Toronto, ON, Canada) 1354.1.3 D-Town Farm (Detroit, MI, USA) 1394.1.4 Regent Park Health Centre Community Garden (Toronto, ON, Canada) 1424.1.5 Aghios Dimitrios Municipal Garden (Athens, Greece) 1434.1.6 Brightmoor Alliance Youth Garden (Detroit, MI, USA) 1464.1.7 Southside City Farm (Providence, RI, USA) 1494.1.8 Kipos3 Community Garden and Urban Vineyard (Thessaloniki, Greece) 1524.1.9 Common Roots Urban Farm (Halifax, NS, Canada) 1554.1.10 Case study lessons 1604.2 Educational farms 1614.2.1 Kentish Town City Farm (London, UK) 1644.2.2 Hackney City Farm (London, UK) 1664.2.3 Vauxhall City Farm (London, UK) 1694.2.4 Surrey Docks Farm (London, UK) 1724.2.5 Mudchute Park and Farm (London, UK) 1754.2.6 Spitalfields City Farm (London, UK) 1794.2.6 Case study lessons 185References 186Chapter 5. Healing art: beautifully grown food 1895.1 Art-filled gardens 1895.1.1 Dalston Eastern Curve Garden (London, UK) 1915.1.2 Fenway Victory Gardens (Boston, MA, USA) 1945.1.3 Case study lessons 1985.2 Artful gardens 1995.2.1 Edible Estates (London, UK) 2015.2.2 The Edible Bus Stop (London, UK) 2035.2.3 Abbey Gardens (London, UK) 2065.2.4 Carrot Green Roof and Garden (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2105.2.5 Lafayette Greens (Detroit, MI, USA) 2145.2.6 Case study lessons 219References 219Chapter 6. Healing heritage: restoring agri-culture 2236.1 Heritage and homage 2236.1.1 Spryfield Kidston Urban Farm (Halifax, NS, Canada) 2266.1.2 Zorbis Office and Apartment Building (Athens, Greece) 2286.1.3 Chiswick House Kitchen Garden (London, UK) 2306.1.4 Riverdale Farm (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2326.1.5 Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum (Halifax, NS, Canada) 2346.1.6 Norsk Folkmuseum (Oslo, Norway) 2386.1.7 Case study lessons 2416.2 Civitas 2426.2.1 Woodlands Farm Trust (London, UK) 2446.2.2 Farm Centre's Legacy Garden (Charlottetown, PEI, Canada) 2466.2.3 Mikveh Israel Agriculture School (Tel Aviv, Israel) 2506.2.4 Les Hortillonnages (Amiens, France) 2526.2.5 Yedikule Gardens (Istanbul, Turkey) 2556.2.6 Parc Agrai de Baix Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain) 2586.2.7 Case study lessons 263References 263Chapter 7. Healing sites and societies: regenerative landscape design 2657.1 Structures and sites 2657.1.1 60 Richmond Street Housing (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2677.1.2 King's Cross Central Skip Garden (London, UK) 2687.1.3 Hellinikon Airport Community Garden (Athens, Greece) 2717.1.4 Greensgrow Farms (Philadelphia, PA, USA) 2747.1.5 Evergreen Brick Works (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2797.1.6 Artspace Wychwood Barns (Toronto, ON, Canada) 2847.1.7 Allen Street Garden (Boston, MA, USA) 2887.1.8 PERKA (Thessalonki, Greece) 2907.1.9 Mill Creek Farm (Philadelphia, PA, USA) 2927.1.10 Case study lessons 2957.2 Souls and societies 2967.2.1 Natural Growth Project (London, UK) 2987.2.2 Forty Hall Vineyard (London, UK) 3027.2.3 ReVision Urban Farm (Boston, MA, USA) 3067.2.4 Earthworks Urban Farm (Detroit, MI, USA) 3097.2.5 Detroit Dreams (Detroit, MI, USA) 3137.2.6 Case study lessons 322References 323