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Author:   Rob Roggema (Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781138183087

ISBN 10:   1138183083
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   11 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Introduction: On the Brink of Why and How: Sustainable Urban Food Planning Grows Up Rob Roggema 2. Hardware Software Interface: A Strategy for the Design of Urban Agriculture Greg Keeffe 3. Food Cultural Landscape: The Infrastructure Resilience of Viæmilia Anna Chiara Leardini and Stefano Serventi 4. Foodscape Gastropolis New York City Arnold van der Valk 5. Peri-urban Farmland Characterisation: A Methodological Proposal for Urban Planning Esther Sanz Sanz, Claude Napoléone, Bernard Hubert 6. Garden Cities: A Flawed Model for Ecological Urbanism? Greg Keeffe, Natalie A. Hall and Andy Jenkins 7. Urban Agriculture Up-scaled: Economically and Socially Productive Public Green Space Joshua Zeunert 8. Urban Agri-tecture: The Natural Way of Smart Living Natalia Mylonaki, with Bauke de Vries, Maarten Willems and Tom Veeger 9. Urban Waters for Urban Agriculture. ROOF WATER-FARMs as Participatory and Multifunctional Infrastructures Angela Million , Grit Bürgow, Anja Steglich and Wolf Raber 10. Associating Agriculture with Education and Recreation in Queens, New York Steven Buchanan 11. Urban Agriculture as a tool for Sustainable Urban Transformation: Atatürk Forest Farm, Ankara Kumru Arapgirlioğlu and Deniz Altay Baykan 12. Elevating Urban Agriculture and City Resilience: Making the case in the City of Los Angeles Laura Sasso 13. The Role of Place, Community and Values in Contemporary Israel’s Urban Agriculture Tal Alon Mozes 14. Population Dimensions, Land Use Change and Food Security in the Peri-urban Area of Santa-Babadjou; Western Highlands, Cameroon Roseline Njih Egra Batcha 15. UK Farming Entrepreneurship for Food Security in an Uncertain Future Howard Lee 16. Experiences of Ten European Cities Collaborating toward Sustainable Food Governance in an URBACT Network François Jégou and Joy Carey

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Rob Roggema is Owner/Director of Cittaideale, Research Office for Adaptive Planning and Design (www.cittaideale.eu) in Wageningen, the Netherlands. He is also Adjunct Professor of Planning with Complexity at the Centre for Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He is Director of the Regional Resilience Research Institute, a global institute to help regions becoming more resilient, physically, socially and mentally. Until 2015 he was Professor of Design for Urban Agriculture.

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