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Farming on the Fringe Peri-Urban Agriculture, Cultural Diversity and Sustainability in Sydney /

This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney's sprawling urban jungle. Providing fresh food for the city and local employment, these culturally and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: James, Sarah (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Urban Agriculture,
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CHAPTER 1: SYDNEY'S 'INVISIBLE' FARMERS
  • Sydney's Market Gardens: A Cultural Economy of Farming on the Fringe
  • The History of CALD market gardeners in Sydney
  • Re-visioning the City from the Edge: Cultural Complexity and Urban Agriculture
  • Speaking from the Fringe
  • Recognition: Determining the efficacy and relevance of prevailing preservation discourses
  • Into the field
  • Chapter Outlines
  • References
  • CHAPTER 2: GROWING SYDNEY
  • A Vision for a Global City
  • Growth as Development
  • Agriculture and Cultural Complexity
  • From Colonial to Global City
  • Environmental and Cultural Limits to Growth
  • Sprawl: The Messiness of the West
  • History of 'Growth' in Sydney's Plans
  • The 2005 Metropolitan Strategy
  • Responses to the 2005 Strategy
  • Green Zones
  • A Plan for Growing Sydney (2015)
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • CHAPTER 3: LOCAL FOOD, URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
  • Vortex cities
  • The turn to local food
  • Planning for PUA
  • Protecting peri-urban agriculture.-Farmland preservation
  • Countryside preservation
  • Voices from the field: the view of the grower
  • Urban agriculture and cultural diversity
  • Sydney's CALD growers
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • CHAPTER 4: DIVERSITY-BLIND PLANNING
  • Diversity and Planning
  • Participation in decision-making
  • Consultation for the 2005 Metropolitan Strategy
  • Public Consultations
  • Perspectives of CALD growers
  • Perspective of Government Planners
  • Towards an Intercultural Perspective
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • CHAPTER 5: THE THINGS WE WANT TO KEEP: MIGRANT MARKET GARDENS AS SYDNEY'S HISTORY AND HERITAGE
  • Protecting Farms as Heritage?
  • A Historic Farming Landscape
  • Bringelly Exhibition
  • Other Exhibitions on Sydney's Agriculture Heritage
  • Migrant Heritage in Australia
  • Migrant Gardens as Heritage
  • Heritage Listed Market Gardens in Sydney
  • Comparison to Other Heritages
  • Growers' Perspectives
  • A Translocated Tradition
  • A Practice to Protect?
  • Type of Crops Grown
  • Family Tradition
  • Connection to Land
  • Knowledge
  • Migration and Settlement
  • Farming as Migrant Employment
  • Providing for the Next Generation
  • A Means of Support
  • A Question of Value
  • Migrant Market Gardens as Heritage?
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • CHAPTER 6: SUSTAINING SYDNEY
  • Can we feed Sydney?
  • Sustainability in Sydney Metropolitan Planning
  • Sydney's Forgotten Farmers
  • Valuing Sydney's Agriculture: Environmentally, socially and economically
  • Moving Out
  • Owners and Lessees
  • Communities
  • Part of a sustainable Sydney
  • The future of Sydney farming
  • Rooftop and Vertical farming: Alternative and high-tech options for production
  • Green zones or green belts
  • Purchase or transfer of development rights
  • Agri-Business Park
  • Economic Viability: a whole of food system perspective
  • Help wanted
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • CHAPTER 7: MULTIPLE URBANISMS
  • Growth as Development
  • Land as Livelihood
  • Heritage and Sustainability
  • Productive Diversity
  • Key findings of the book
  • Final Word
  • References.