Research Catalog

Title

Farming the city : food as a tool for today's urbanisation / edited by CITIES, Francesca Miazzo and Mark Minkjan.

Publication

[Amsterdam] : trancity valiz, [2013]

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Additional Authors

• Miazzo, Francesca
• Minkjan, Mark
• CITIES (Organization), issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Description

232 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Food supply > Environmental aspects
• Urban agriculture
• Sustainable living

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Sitopia and the urban paradox / Carolyn Steel -- The food field and the food policy discipline. Feeding the city : the challenge of urban food planning / Kevin Morgan ; Food-steps : creating regional food chains / Pim Vermeulen ; The resilient city / Jan Jongert ; Systems thinking in practice / Paul de Graaf ; Urban agriculture : designing the productive city / Katrin Bohn, Andre Viljoen -- Food economies and their relationship with a new social topography. Using slow money to farm the city / Derek A. Denckla ; Future foodscapes / Jan-Willem van der Schans ; Local food, fresh and fair / Oran B. Hesterman ; Possibilities and pitfalls : urban food security / Jennifer Sumner, JJ McMurtry, Michael Classens -- Urban society : citizens, artists and activists. Adopt, accept, appreciate / Debra Solomon, Mariska van den Berg ; Community food : the role of artists / Alex Wilde, Annechien Meier ; The trauma of Zagreb's torn trees / Sonja Leboš ; Tokyo, a fruitful city / Chris Berthelsen, Jared Braiterman, Jess Mantell ; Getting started : how to pilot a successful food project / Simone Plantinga, Floor de Sera-de Jong.

ISBN

• 9789078088639
• 907808863X

OCLC

• ocn846914805
• 846914805
• SCSB-5713076

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries