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"Full-scale food production in cities: is it an impossibility? Or is it a panacea for all that ails urban communities? Today, it's a reality, but many people still don't know how much of an impact this emerging food system is having on cities and their residents. This book showcases t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dawson, Julie (Editor ), Morales, Alfonso, 1961- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
Temas:
Urban agriculture.
Agriculture urbaine.
GARDENING > Essays.
GARDENING > Reference.
GARDENING > Vegetables.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Horticulture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Urban agriculture
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cities of farmers: problems, possibilities and processes of producing food in cities / Julie Dawson and Alfonso Morales
  • Food from scratch for the zenith of the unsalted seas: creating a local food system in early 20th century Duluth, Minnesota / Randel D. Hanson
  • Municipal housekeepers and the high cost of living: the work of Grand Rapids women's clubs to establish gardening programs and farmers markets as public services in early twentieth century Grand Rapids / Jayson Otto
  • Urban ag' in the 'burbs / Megan Horst, Catherine Brinkley, Kara Martin
  • Cultivating in Cascadia: urban agriculture policy and practice in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver / Nathan McClintock and Michael Simpson
  • Urban agriculture: composting / Lauren Suerth
  • Agroecology of urban farming / Erin Silva and Anne Pfeiffer
  • Lessons from 'the bucket brigade': the role of urban gardening in Native American cultural continuance / Michèle Companion
  • Foregrounding community-building in community food security: a case study of the New Brunswick community farmers market and Esperanza Garden / Laura Lawson, Luke Drake, and Nurgul Fitzgerald
  • Fumbling for community in a Brooklyn community garden / Dory Thrasher
  • Food hubs: expanding local food to urban consumers / Becca B.R. Jablonski and Todd M. Schmit
  • Chicago marketplaces / Anne Roubal and Alfonso Morales
  • The co-evolution of urban agriculture practice, planning, and policy / Nevin Cohen and Katinka Wijsman
  • Urban agriculture and health: what is known, what is possible? / Benjamin W. Chrisinger and Sheila Golden
  • More than the sum of their parts: an exploration of the connective and facilitative functions of food policy councils / Lindsey Day-Farnsworth
  • Embedding food systems into the built environment / Janine de la Salle.

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