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OverviewUrban 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 Pearsall’s 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christina D. Rosan , Hamil PearsallPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.300kg ISBN: 9781442628557ISBN 10: 1442628553 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 12 December 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsChapter 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: ConclusionReviewsThis 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 * The book supports the following idea: urban agriculture is a city planning challenge for land use and who gets to access it. A key take-away is that urban agriculture is not merely a contemporary food systems trend, but an under-developed mechanism for city sustainability. The authors conclude with helpful suggestions on how city planners and organizers might better integrate urban food production into social and environmental sustainability city planning. -- Alana N. Chriest, Ohio State University * Agriculture and Human Values no 36 * Author InformationChristina 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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