Urban and Regional Agriculture

Building Resilient Food Systems

1st Edition - December 3, 2022
Imprint: Academic Press
Editor: Peter Droege
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
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Urban and Regional Agriculture: Building Resilient Food Systems explores the sustainable integration of food provision, distribution and consumption through urban farms, agricultural systems, user communities and structural facilities designed to optimize food production and consumption. The book addresses the fundamental and pressing challenges of urban planning problems, waste minimization, food sourcing, access and equity issues, and multiple land use optimization. Sections cover the need and opportunities of urban agriculture, discuss tradition and transition, space and regulatory topics, explore the range of urban agriculture options (aquaculture to urban permaculture), discuss support structures and constructs of physically creating urban agricultural areas, and much more.

Edited and authored by leading experts in the field, this volume will be valuable for those working to address issues of food security in urban environments.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
About the authors
Preface
Chapter 1. Farming for a stable climate
Introduction
Content: from paradigms to systems
Context: garden, city, paradise
Section 1. Paradigms and Policies
Chapter 2. Community-based urban agriculture for food justice: a review
Introduction
Background and settings
Setting the stage: urban agriculture community capacity assessment to achieve food justice
Main focus: growing community capitals through community gardens
Summary and outlook
Chapter 3. The role of food policy councils in supporting urban agriculture: a scoping review
Introduction
A brief history of food policy councils
Scoping review on the role of FPCs in supporting urban agriculture
Findings: the role of FPCs in supporting urban agriculture
Conclusions and next steps
Chapter 4. A city for all who eat: foodscape values for liveable cities
Food at the center of urban transformation
Foodscapes and urban transformation
Business unusual
Cultivating fairer foodways
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Urban–rural food system convergence as a vector for sustainable transformation
Change-enabling urban–rural policy initiatives
Food and urban design
City region food systems: enabling rural–urban linkages as a platform for urban agriculture
Chapter 6. Cuba's agroecological revolution: implication for widespread adoption
Part 1 – introduction to agroecology and contextualizing the Cubab case
Part 2 – a changing agrarian structure
Part 3 – analysis, conclusion, and moving forward
Section 2. Cities and Planning
Chapter 7. From the Reformation to Garden Cities–a Danish perspective on the development of urban agriculture in Europe
The Reformation and rise of urban agriculture (16th century)
Utopia and the Christian visions of ideal work and community organization (18th century)
The Enlightenment period and perceptions of poverty (early 19th century)
Utopia and the socialist visions of ideal work and community organization (Mid-19th century)
The Garden City or gardens in the city? The urban poor and social reforms (late 19th century)
The allotment garden movement of 1884
Conclusion
Chapter 8. Nexus of urban gardening and social sustainability in European postsocialist cities
Introduction
Evolution of urban gardening in Europe
Urban gardening in socialist Europe
The change in postsocialist Europe
Urban gardening and social sustainability
Methodology
Urban gardening between motivations, approaches, and perceived benefits
Recommendations
Chapter 9. Access to and control over resources in urban agriculture in Tamale, Ghana
Introduction
Theme
Discussion
Summary and outlook
Chapter 10. Intensive, informal, individual: Ankara urban farms
Introduction: agriculture and the city throughout history
The evolving relationship of human, land, and production: key concepts and actors
Historical background: agriculture and urbanization in Ankara
Cases from Ankara: intensive, informal, individual
Findings and discussions: potentials, problems, opportunities, challenges, weaknesses, and strengths
Summary and outlook on findings
Chapter 11. The contribution of sustainable food system policies and initiatives for the Milan Metropolitan Area resilience
Food policies contribution in facing urban climate challenges
Milan rural–metropolitan area: roots and challenges
Food policies and practices in Milan
Milan 2030: integrating food policies in long-term vision for resilient and sustainable Milan
The contribution of sustainable urban food system and urban agriculture in sustainable and resilient metropolitan development
Chapter 12. Amplifying sustainable commercial urban agriculture in Sweden through the Stadsbruk method
Introduction
What is Stadsbruk?
Methodology
Impact of Stadsbruk: pilot results
How the Stadsbruk approach amplifies urban agriculture enterprise
Forthcoming challenges
Conclusion
Chapter 13. Circular metropolis and local food strategy: instrument of urban sustainability transition? Case studies Bristol and Vancouver
Introduction
Local food system planning
‘Great transformation’ and the need for sustainability transition
Transition theory and multilevel perspective: analytical framework
Food and spatial planning
Food strategies as instrument of urban planning
Empirics: case studies Vancouver and Bristol
Conclusion
Section 3. Designing Urban and Regional Agriculture
Chapter 14. Grown in the city: a design typology for productive urban landscapes
Introduction
Productive landscape types
Integration of form and function
Conclusion
Chapter 15. Urban integration of aquaponics: advancing integrated food systems for the circular city
Aquaponics, sustainability, and the circular city
Aquaponic systems, enclosures, and building integration
Types of urban aquaponics today
Outstanding aquaponics farms in operation
Commercial viability and economic considerations
Urban integration and scaling up
Future directions and next steps
Chapter 16. Translating unique agricultural precedents into public urban agriculture design
Introduction
Background
Cases and their spatial design potential
Conclusion
Chapter 17. The ReciproCity: nature-driven urbanism in Western Sydney
Introduction: transitioning to a new period
Reciprocity is nature driven
Methodology
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
Section 4. State of Systems
Chapter 18. Commercial rooftop greenhouses: technical requirements, operational strategies, economic considerations, and future opportunities
Introduction
Parallel development of the World's first two commercial rooftop greenhouse farms
Physical infrastructure, farm operation, and economic considerations
Farm operation, productivity, and distribution
Economic considerations, business models, and financing strategies
Recent developments and future opportunities
Chapter 19. Indoor farms for tomorrow's cities: improving environmental and economic performance
A life cycle assessment of indoor soilless agriculture
Limits and opportunities of the life cycle analysis
Future technologies
Using stranded and underutilized assets with indoor farms
Renewable energy efficiencies and integrating farms in cities
The future of cities and opportunities for urban agriculture
Limits of indoor soilless agriculture
Chapter 20. Peruvian hydroponics: low-cost options to produce vegetables for South American cities
Introduction
Advantages and disadvantages
Growing media for vegetables production in roofs
Crops for vegetables production in roofs
Hydroponics systems
How to prepare the nutrient solution
Management of the nutrient solution
Cases of Peruvian roofs hydroponics gardens
Chapter 21. Living architecture: metabolic applications for next-generation, selectively programmable bioreactors
Introduction
Nitrogen and phosphorus CYCLE
Selectively programmable apps (living architecture)
Architecture
Scenarios
Living architecture envisioned today, reality tomorrow
Index

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