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Growing a Sustainable City?: The Question of Urban Agriculture
Contributor(s): Rosan, Christina D. (Author), Pearsall, Hamil (Author)

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 ISBN: 1442628553     ISBN-13: 9781442628557
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development
- Political Science | Public Policy - Agriculture & Food Policy
- Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Sustainable Agriculture
Series: Utp Insights
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (0.70 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Locality - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania
Review Citations: Choice 09/01/2018
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Rosan, Christina D.: - Christina D. Rosan is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University.
Pearsall, Hamil: - Hamil Pearsall is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University.
 
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