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City of Forests, City of Farms : Sustainability Planning for New York City's Nature /

City of Forests, City of Farms is a history of recent urban forestry and agriculture policy and programs in New York City. Centered on the 2007 initiative PlaNYC, this account tracks the development of policies that increased sustainability efforts in the city and dedicated more than 00 million doll...

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Autor principal: Campbell, Lindsay K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : juxtaposing urban forestry and agriculture in the PlaNYC era
  • Greening New York City : political economic context and environmental stewardship from 1970-present
  • Creating PlaNYC : the politics of urban sustainability planning
  • City of forests : planting one million trees
  • Beyond planting : creating an urban forestry movement
  • Growing in the city : from community gardening to urban agriculture
  • City of farms : cultivating urban agriculture through food policy visions and plans
  • Constructing the "greener, greater" city : politics, discourses, and material practices
  • City as ecosystem : changing form, function, and governance of urban socio-nature
  • Epilogue : from Bloomberg to de Blasio and beyond.