Growing a Sustainable City? : The Question of Urban Agriculture / Christina D. Rosan, Hamil Pearsall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosan, Christina D., author.

Pearsall, Hamil, author.

Series:

UTP insights.

UTP Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban agriculture.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 pages) : color illustrations, maps, photographs.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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Chapter one. Introduction: The Dilemma of Urban Agriculture

Chapter two. The Rise of Urban Agriculture as a Short-Term Strategy (1893–1980)

Chapter three. The Agendas of Urban Agriculture at Its Peak (1990–2000s)

Chapter four. The Politics of Urban Agriculture in Sustainability Planning

Chapter five. “New Growers” Making Sense of Their Role

Chapter six. Putting Growing in the City in Perspective

Chapter seven. Transitioning Towards a Sustainable Future?

Notes

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-2421-3

1-4426-2420-5

OCLC:

1014432026