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Designing urban agriculture : a complete guide to the planning, design, construction, maintenance and management of edible landscapes /

"This full-color guide offers a complete overview of edible landscapes from the planning, designing, and funding to the management and maintenance of these communal spaces and ecodestinations. Featuring case studies of innovative projects, it offers complete coverage of a dozen typologies inclu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Philips, April
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This full-color guide offers a complete overview of edible landscapes from the planning, designing, and funding to the management and maintenance of these communal spaces and ecodestinations. Featuring case studies of innovative projects, it offers complete coverage of a dozen typologies including community gardens, CSA farms, edible estates, edible roof gardens, guerilla gardens, vertical wall gardens, and farm-to-table gardens, among others"--
"Explains how to design regenerative edible landscapes that benefit both community and ecology Offers complete coverage of management and maintenance issues "--
Notas:Machine generated contents note: Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Food Cities: Ecology + Urban Agriculture (ecology) Chapter 2: Planning Strategies for Urban Food Systems (planning) Chapter 3: Vision, Synthesis and Form (designing) Chapter 4: Systems Integration and Connections (constructing) Chapter 5: Lifecycle Operations (managing) Chapter 6: Outreach and Community (marketing) Bibliography Index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781118333075
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