As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries. This book focuses on the sustainable development of urban agriculture and its relationship to food planning in cities.
It brings together the best revised and updated papers from the Sixth Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) conference on Sustainable Food Planning. The main emphasis is on the latest research and thinking on spatial planning and design, showing how urban agriculture provides opportunities to develop and enhance the spatial quality of urban environments. Chapters address various topics such as a new theoretical model for understanding urban agriculture, how urban agriculture contributes to restoring our connections to nature, and the limitations of the garden city concept to food security. Case studies are included from several European countries, including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Turkey and the UK, as well as Australia, Canada, Cameroon, Ethiopia and the United States (New York and Los Angeles).
1. Introduction: On the Brink of Why and How: Sustainable Urban Food Planning Grows Up
Rob Roggema
2. Hardware Software Interface: A Strategy for the Design of Urban Agriculture
Greg Keeffe
3. Food Cultural Landscape: The Infrastructure Resilience of Viæmilia
Anna Chiara Leardini and Stefano Serventi
4. Foodscape Gastropolis New York City
Arnold van der Valk
5. Peri-urban Farmland Characterisation: A Methodological Proposal for Urban Planning
Esther Sanz Sanz, Claude Napoléone, Bernard Hubert
6. Garden Cities: A Flawed Model for Ecological Urbanism?
Greg Keeffe, Natalie A. Hall and Andy Jenkins
7. Urban Agriculture Up-scaled: Economically and Socially Productive Public Green Space
Joshua Zeunert
8. Urban Agri-tecture: The Natural Way of Smart Living
Natalia Mylonaki, with Bauke de Vries, Maarten Willems and Tom Veeger
9. Urban Waters for Urban Agriculture. ROOF WATER-FARMs as Participatory and Multifunctional Infrastructures
Angela Million , Grit Bürgow, Anja Steglich and Wolf Raber
10. Associating Agriculture with Education and Recreation in Queens, New York
Steven Buchanan
11. Urban Agriculture as a tool for Sustainable Urban Transformation: Atatürk Forest Farm, Ankara
Kumru Arapgirlioğlu and Deniz Altay Baykan
12. Elevating Urban Agriculture and City Resilience: Making the case in the City of Los Angeles
Laura Sasso
13. The Role of Place, Community and Values in Contemporary Israel’s Urban Agriculture
Tal Alon Mozes
14. Population Dimensions, Land Use Change and Food Security in the Peri-urban Area of Santa-Babadjou; Western Highlands, Cameroon
Roseline Njih Egra Batcha
15. UK Farming Entrepreneurship for Food Security in an Uncertain Future
Howard Lee
16. Experiences of 10 European Cities Collaborating toward Sustainable Food Governance in an URBACT Network
François Jégou and Joy Carey
Biography
Rob Roggema is Owner/Director of Cittaideale, Research Office for Adaptive Planning and Design (www.cittaideale.eu) in Wageningen, the Netherlands. He is also Adjunct Professor of Planning with Complexity at the Centre for Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He is Director of the Regional Resilience Research Institute, a global institute to help regions becoming more resilient, physically, socially and mentally. Until 2015 he was Professor of Design for Urban Agriculture.
