Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment. These objectives connect to many cities' broader goal of "sustainability," but tensions among stakeholders have started to emerge in cities as urban agriculture is incorporated into the policymaking framework. Growing a Sustainable City? offers a critical analysis of the development of urban agriculture policies and their role in making post-industrial cities more sustainable. Christina Rosan and Hamil Pearsall's intriguing and illuminating case study of Philadelphia reveals how growing in the city has become a symbol of urban economic revitalization, sustainability, and - increasingly - gentrification. Their comprehensive research includes interviews with urban farmers, gardeners, and city officials, and reveals that the transition to "sustainability" is marked by a series of tensions along race, class, and generational lines. The book evaluates the role of urban agriculture in sustainability planning and policy by placing it within the context of a large city struggling to manage competing sustainability objectives. They highlight the challenges and opportunities of institutionalizing urban agriculture into formal city policy. Rosan and Pearsall tell the story of change and growing pains as a city attempts to reinvent itself as sustainable, livable, and economically competitive.
This revised work continues to serve as a valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and policy advisors working across transport, land use, and planning.
Dreaming the Rational City : The Myth of American City Planning by M. Christine Boyer Dreaming the Rational City is both a history of the city - planning profession in the United States and a major polemical statement about the effort ...
Dreaming the Rational City is both a history of the city planning profession in the United States and a major polemical statement about the effort to plan and reform the American city.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- City Planning in Practice-Chapter Tie-in List -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- SECTION I The Foundations of City Planning -- 1 Introduction: The ...
Designing cities. Includes colour and B & W photographs.
A User Conflict Model for Urban Trail Systems [microform]: a Case Study of Calgary
Sustainable Transport in Sustainable Cities: The Final Report: Towards a City of Cities
This study focuses on issues relating to the planning, funding and implementation of transport and land use in Greater Sydney, how these impact currently on behaviour and lifestyle and how residents want Sydney to develop in the future.
"With uncertainty and unpredictable change in the built environment, and constant pressure on professionals and organisations to make choices, many of strategic significance, this book shows how strategic planning methods are used to tackle ...
Dalibard , and C. Salomon . Mar 92 , 66p MIC - 93-07297 / GAR PC E07 / MF E01 Text in French ; summary in English . Prepared in coopnized around 4 major groupings of issues : Settlement , Calgary Regional Planning Commission ( Alberta ) ...