Title & Author:

Farming the city : food as a tool for today's urbanisation / edited by CITIES, Francesca Miazzo and Mark Minkjan.

Publication:

[Amsterdam] : Trancity valiz, [2013]

Description:

232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Sitopia and the urban paradox / Carolyn Steel -- The food field and the food policy discipline. Feeding the city : the challenge of urban food planning / Kevin Morgan ; Food-steps : creating regional food chains / Pim Vermeulen ; The resilient city / Jan Jongert ; Systems thinking in practice / Paul de Graaf ; Urban agriculture : designing the productive city / Katrin Bohn, Andre Viljoen -- Food economies and their relationship with a new social topography. Using slow money to farm the city / Derek A. Denckla ; Future foodscapes / Jan-Willem van der Schans ; Local food, fresh and fair / Oran B. Hesterman ; Possibilities and pitfalls : urban food security / Jennifer Sumner, JJ McMurtry, Michael Classens -- Urban society : citizens, artists and activists. Adopt, accept, appreciate / Debra Solomon, Mariska van den Berg ; Community food : the role of artists / Alex Wilde, Annechien Meier ; The trauma of Zagreb's torn trees / Sonja Leboš ; Tokyo, a fruitful city / Chris Berthelsen, Jared Braiterman, Jess Mantell ; Getting started : how to pilot a successful food project / Simone Plantinga, Floor de Sera-de Jong.

Summary:

"Farming the City is about how to use food a tool for today's urbanisation by employing effective and achievable small-scale local solutions. Yes, we live in challenging times, but we do not seek to alarm or demoralise our readers. Yes, 75 per cent of us will be living in cities by 2050, and we face serious issues regarding food miles, foodprints and CO2 emissions. But many of us have heard this story too many times and find global challenges too abstract, too remote and very difficult to solve in doable, practical ways. This book, however, offers affordable, achievable solutions: how the process of re-thinking our local food systems positively affects neighbourhoods, communities, politics and people. It is time to lower our sights and focus on what we can realistically do; today, tomorrow and next year. It is time to explore local solutions. Farming the City investigates the impact of local food initiatives and urban agriculture on our built environment, economic systems and community cohesion. It is about what we can do now to pave the way towards a locally-driven, equitable, post-carbon society." www.trancity.nl.

ISBN:

9789078088639 (pbk.)
907808863X (pbk.)

Subject:

Food supply Environmental aspects.
Urban agriculture.
Sustainable living.
Agriculture urbaine.
Style de vie durable.

Added entries:

Miazzo, Francesca, editor.
Minkjan, Mark, editor.
CITIES (Organization), issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283437
Call No.: BIB 221635
Status: Available