Growing a Sustainable City?: The Question of Urban Agriculture (UTP Insights)

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Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to various urban problems, such as blighted vacant rather a lot, food lack of confidence, storm water runoff, and unemployment. These objectives connect to many cities’ broader goal of “sustainability,” but tensions among stakeholders have began to emerge in cities as urban agriculture is incorporated into the policymaking framework.

Growing a Sustainable City? offers a important 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 within the city has turn into a symbol of urban economic revitalization, sustainability, and – an increasing number of – 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 throughout the context of a big 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.
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