Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States : Future Directions for a New Ethic in City Building / edited by Samina Raja, Marcia Caton Campbell, Alexandra Judelsohn, Branden Born, Alfonso Morales.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raja, Samina, Editor.

Caton Campbell, Marcia., Editor.

Judelsohn, Alexandra., Editor.

Born, Branden M., Editor.

Morales, Alfonso, Editor.

Series:

Urban Agriculture, 2197-1749

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture.

Geography.

Food science.

Human rights.

Social policy.

Sociology, Urban.

Regional Geography.

Food Science.

Human Rights.

Social Policy.

Urban Sociology.

Local Subjects:

Agriculture.

Regional Geography.

Food Science.

Human Rights.

Social Policy.

Urban Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXXIII, 564 p. 1 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This open access book, building on the legacy of food systems scholar and advocate, Jerome Kaufman, examines the potential and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture (UA) in the United States, especially in how questions of ethics and equity are addressed. The book is organized into six sections. Written by a team of scholars and practitioners, the book covers a comprehensive array of topics ranging from theory to practice of planning for equitable urban agriculture. Section 1 makes the case for re-imagining agriculture as central to urban landscapes, and unpacks why, how, and when planning should support UA, and more broadly food systems. Section 2, written by early career and seasoned scholars, provides a theoretical foundation for the book. Section 3, written by teams of scholars and community partners, examines how civic agriculture is unfolding across urban landscapes, led largely by community organizations. Section 4, written by planning practitioners and scholars, documents local government planning tied to urban agriculture, focusing especially on how they address questions of equity. Section 5 explores UA as a locus of pedagogy of equity. Section 6 places the UA movement in the US within a global context, and concludes with ideas and challenges for the future. The book concludes with a call for planning as public nurturance – an approach that can be illustrated through urban agriculture. Planning as public nurturance is a value-explicit process that centers an ethics of care, especially protecting the interests of publics that are marginalized. It builds the capacity of marginalized groups to authentically co-design and participate in planning/policy processes. Such a planning approach requires that progress toward equitable outcomes is consistently evaluated through accountability measures. And, finally, such an approach requires attention to structural and institutional inequities. Addressing these four elements is more likely to create a condition under which urban agriculture may be used as a lever in the planning and development of more just and equitable cities. .

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

II Theories and Foundations: Ethics, Urban agriculture, and Planning

Chapter 2 Theoretical Foundations

Chapter 3 The Food System: A Stranger to the Planning Field

Chapter 4 From Theory to Practice: Reflections from planning practice

Chapter 5 Urban agriculture: linking ethics and food

Chapter 6 The Intersection of Planning, Urban Agriculture, and Food Justice

Chapter 7 Systems thinking

III Practical Ethics: Urban Agriculture in US Cities

Chapter 8 Urban agriculture practice (National/Big Picture)

Chapter 9 Experience from Detroit and Cleveland

Chapter 10 Experience from Buffalo (North east)

Chapter 11 Urban Agriculture as Public Good: Experience from Philly and Chicago

Chapter 12 Experience from West (Las Cruces

Chapter 13 Experience from South (Albany, GA)

Chapter 14 NYC

Chapter 15 Experience from Michigan county

IV Public Policy Responses to Urban Agriculture

Chapter 16 Public PolicyResponse (National/Big Picture)

Chapter 17 Baltimore

Chapter 18 Denver

Chapter 19 Austin

Chapter 20 Minneapolis

Chapter 21 Seattle

Chapter 22 Madison

Chapter 23 The Relational Infrastructure of Food Systems Planning and Policy Development

V Pedagogy of Capacity-Building through Urban Agriculture

Chapter 24 UA as a Locus for Pedagogy

Chapter 25 Studio-based education

Chapter 26 Distance-based education

Chapter 27 Community-university partnerships

Chapter 28 Pedagogy of Urban Agriculture

V Directions for the Future

Chapter 29 From the outside in: European perspectives

Chapter 30 Comparison of US-Global South

Chapter 31 Conclusion: Ideas for the Future

Bibliography.

ISBN:

9783031320767

303132076X

OCLC:

1427723080