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| Author | : Nicole Faires |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2016-11-15 |
| Genre | : House & Home |
| ISBN | : 1510703934 |
How to maximize your food production in an urban environment. The idea of bringing agriculture into the city has been promoted by many on both sides of the political fence: proponents of sustainability and prevention of climate change as well as those who worry about government and social instability. To address the urgent need for a shift in the way our food is produced, The Ultimate Guide to Urban Farming offers a practical education in everything there is to know about city agriculture: how to grow a lot of food in any kind of urban living situation, from apartment to full-scale commercial venture. Subjects covered include: • Small scale vs. large scale agriculture • The economic, social, health, and environmental impacts of urban farming • Making the most of the space available • The latest technologies and developments in agriculture, including: hydroponics, vertical gardening, and aquaponics • Case studies and design concerns for community-based farming • The best plant species for cities and seasons • Beekeeping and small animals • Commercial agriculture and the business side of farming in a city environment This comprehensive guide will introduce readers to the rewarding possibilities of growing their own food, as well as dispel the falsehood that says we need faraway factory farms to produce everything we eat.
| Author | : Sinan Koont |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Agriculture and state |
| ISBN | : 9780813037578 |
Sinan Koont has spent the last several years researching urban agriculture in Cuba, including field work at many sustainable farms on the island. He tells the story of why and how Cuba was able to turn to urban food production on a large scale with minimal use of chemicals, petroleum, and machinery, and of the successes it achieved--along with the continuing difficulties it still faces in reducing its need for food imports--
| Author | : Christina D. Rosan |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2017-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1442628553 |
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 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.
| Author | : Luc J. A. Mougeot |
| Publisher | : IDRC |
| Total Pages | : 119 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1552502260 |
Accompanying CD-ROM also has titles in French and Spanish.
| Author | : Rob Roggema |
| Publisher | : Routledge Studies in Food, Soc |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9781138183087 |
13 The role of place, community and values in contemporary Israel's urban agriculture -- 14 Population dimensions, land use change and food security in the peri-urban area of Santa-Babadjou, Western Highlands, Cameroon -- 15 UK farming entrepreneurship for food security in an uncertain future -- 16 Experiences of ten European cities collaborating toward sustainable food governance in an URBACT network -- Index
| Author | : Thomas Fox |
| Publisher | : Fox Chapel Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2011-06-07 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1935484834 |
It doesn't take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Now, due to a burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you don't have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Hobby Farms Urban Farming, from Hobby Farm Press and the same people who bring you Hobby Farms and Hobby Farm Home magazine, will walk every city and suburban dweller down the path of self sustainability. Urban Farming will introduce readers to the concepts of gardening and farming from a high-rise apartment, participating in a community garden, vertical farming, and converting terraces and other small city spaces into fruitful, vegetableful real estate. This comprehensive volume will answer every up and coming urban farmer's questions about how, what, where and why;a new green book for the dedicated citizen seeking to reduce his carbon footprint and grocery bill.
| Author | : International Development Research Centre (Canada) |
| Publisher | : IDRC |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1552502163 |
| Author | : Andre Viljoen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2012-05-04 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1136414320 |
This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs to the city dwelling consumers. The revolutionary and innovative concepts put forth in this book have potential to shape the future of our cities quality of life within them. Urban design is shown in practice through international case studies and the arguments presented are supported by quantified economic, environmental and social justifications.
| Author | : Henk de Zeeuw |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2015-09-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1317506618 |
As people increasingly migrate to urban settings and more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, it is vital to plan and provide for sustainable and resilient food systems which reflect this challenge. This volume presents experience and evidence-based "state of the art" chapters on the key dimensions of urban food challenges and types of intra- and peri-urban agriculture. The book provides urban planners, local policy makers and urban development practitioners with an overview of crucial aspects of urban food systems based on an up to date review of research results and practical experiences in both developed and developing countries. By doing so, the international team of authors provides a balanced textbook for students of the growing number of courses on sustainable agriculture, food and urban studies, as well as a solid basis for well-informed policy making, planning and implementation regarding the development of sustainable, resilient and just urban food systems.
| Author | : Christina D. Rosan |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2017-11-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1442624213 |
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 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.
