Public Produce - The New Urban Agriculture

Informationen zum Autor Darrin Nordahl is the city designer at the Davenport Design Center, which was formed in 2003 as a division of the Community & Economic Development Department of the City of Davenport, Iowa. He has taught in the planning program at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of My Kind of Transit . Klappentext Public Produce makes a uniquely contemporary case not for central government intervention, but for local government involvement. In what Darrin Nordahl calls "municipal agriculture," elected officials, municipal planners, local policymakers and public space designers are turning to the abundance of land under public control (parks, plazas, streets, city squares, parking lots, as well as the grounds around libraries, schools, government offices, and even jails) to grow food. Public agencies at one time were at best indifferent, or at worst dismissive, of food production in the city. Today, public officials recognize that food insecurity is affecting everyone, not just the innercity poor, and that policies seeking to restructure the production and distribution of food to the tens of millions of people living in cities have immediate benefits to community-wide health and prosperity. Zusammenfassung Makes a contemporary case not for central government intervention! but for local government involvement in shaping food policy. This book profiles urban food growing efforts! illustrating that there is both a need and a desire to supplement our existing food production methods outside the city with opportunities inside the city.

Product details

• Authors: Darrin Nordahl, Nordahl Darrin
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.2009
• EAN: 9781597265881
• ISBN: 978-1-59726-588-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; NATURE / Natural Resources, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, Urban & municipal planning, Environmental Management, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Agriculture & Related Industries