Urban Agriculture and Community Values The Green Transformation of C
This book addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and sketches the 'community economy' that grounds agricultural enterprise more accurately than the industrial model. In its current practice, agriculture is (in the United States but increas
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Urban Agriculture and Community Values The Green Transformation of Cities
Urban Agriculture and Community Values
Partridge Creek Farm: Dan Perkins builds a raised bed
Lisa Newton
Urban Agriculture and Community Values The Green Transformation of Cities
Lisa Newton University of Vermont Shelburne, VT, USA
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Introduction
No longer a contradiction in terms, urban agriculture, farming in the cities, is a surprisingly successful political and economic movement in the United States and elsewhere; it may be the key to the success of cities of the future. It turns out to be a multivalued enterprise, initiated for different reasons on different sites and drawing its practitioners together in slightly different associations. The academic field of urban agriculture displays a growth curve that would bring tears of joy to the eyes of any economist: In 1994, Jac Smit, one of the first scholars in the field, could find no extant literature at all on the subject; in 1996, he and a colleague (Joe Nasr) brought out a book about it, funded by the United Nations; then, from 1996 to 2009, 3350 articles came out, more than 250 annually; then in 2010 alone, more than 800.1 (The number by now is beyond counting.) During this period (and no doubt earlier), city dwellers had launched experimental rooftop gardens and planted vacant lots and tiny backyards, quite without regard to any system or programmatic belief. Much of the field remains unsettled. We still have no widely accepted definition of a “city” for these purposes
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