Urban Agriculture in Public Space : Planning and Designing for Human Flourishing in Northern European Cities and Beyond / edited by Beata Sirowy, Deni Ruggeri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sirowy, Beata.

Contributor:

Ruggeri, Deni.

Series:

GeoJournal Library, 2215-0072 ; 132

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Agriculture.

Quality of life.

Sociology, Urban.

Human Geography.

Quality of Life Research.

Urban Sociology.

Local Subjects:

Human Geography.

Agriculture.

Quality of Life Research.

Urban Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

This open access book discusses urban agriculture initiatives integrated in public space of dense inner-city neighbourhoods, thereby ensuring its accessibility for large and diverse segments of urban populations. It specifically focuses on the potential impacts of urban agriculture on human well-being (both on individual and community levels), and how planning, design, policy and management practices can maximize these impacts. The book addresses urban agriculture on both a micro and macro scale to facilitate a transition to more sustainable lifestyles and enhance the quality of urban life. It also discusses ways to permanently integrate urban agriculture in existing and planned public spaces in a visually attractive, socially inclusive, and democratic manner to claim and reclaim the right to the city. Based on the research outcomes of the project “Cultivating Public Space: urban agriculture as a basis for human flourishing and sustainability transition in Norwegian cities” funded by the Research Council of Norway, the book emerges from a Norwegian context, but extends to include international urban agriculture cases from the Netherlands, Denmark, the UK and more. By including a diversity of voices and cultural perspectives, the editors aimed to make this book engaging and relevant to an international audience of researchers, policy makers, urban designers, planners, educators, community activists, residents, and public space users of the sustainable, compact city of today and the future.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Setting the stage: urban agriculture and public space

PART I: Conceptual foundations: urban agriculture for human flourishing

Chapter 2. Capabilities and beyond: towards an operationalization of eudaimonic well-being in cities

Chapter 3. Cultivating Virtue: neo-Aristotelian concepts in public space development

PART II: Public urban agriculture in Northern European contexts

Chapter 4. Cultivating publicness through urban agriculture: learning from Aarhus and Rotterdam

Chapter 5. The rise and fall of public urban gardens: four cases from in and around Copenhagen

6. Practicing urban agriculture in public space: experiences from Oslo

Chapter 7. The importance of social programming in urban agriculture: a practitioner’s experiences from Norway

PART III: When education gets in the urban agriculture mix

Chapter 8. Key characteristics of co-produced urban agriculture visions in Oslo

Chapter 9. Urban Agriculture from prescription to adaptation in the future dense city. A view from the classroom

Chapter 10. Urban Agriculture and the right to the city: a practitioner’s roadmap

PART IV: Planning for urban agriculture in Norway

Chapter 11. Motivations for urban agriculture policies: evidence from Norway’s largest urban areas

Chapter 12. The development and institutionalization of urban agriculture policy: what characterizes the emerging governance models in three Norwegian cities?

PART V: A way forward for urban agriculture in cities and communities

Chapter 13. Raising the ambition of urban agriculture in public space: nurturing urban agroecology and more-than-human health

Chapter 14. Final reflections: Lessons learnt, limitations, and the way forward.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-031-41550-7

OCLC:

1432312003