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""The core activities of urban agriculture are involved with producing, processing, marketing, distributing, and consuming food. Urban agriculture also provides services and outcomes through transforming neglected or damaged landscapes, lives, and livelihoods. This book focuses on the so-called 'ancillary benefits' of urban agriculture in terms of healing economies, connections, aesthetics, heritage, and sites and societies - in short, what might be referred to in an holistic sense as the emerging paradigm of 'agrourbanism'. More than seventy case studies from around the world are reviewed through the social-ecological lens of regenerative landscape design. Many of these cases have never before been discussed in the literature. Topics examined include entrepreneurship, gastro-tourism, food literacy, foodscaping, heritage, and social and societal wellbeing. The methodological approach undertaken is layered-narrative scholarship based on the phenomenology of experiencing landscapes, and is facilitated through a linked website containing photo-essays documenting the site visits. Robert L. France is a world-renowned scientist in the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University, where he teaches courses on urban agriculture, ecohydrology, watershed management, conservation biology, and environmental restoration. For more than a decade he taught and conducted research on landscape architecture, land-use planning, and urban design at the Harvard Design School. Dr. France is the author or editor of twenty-two books and more than two hundred journal articles on a wide range of environmental subjects, which together have been cited more than ten thousand times in the professional literature. In 2010, he organized the first international academic conference on urban agriculture in Canada, which led to the publication of the edited volume Integrated Urban Agriculture: Precedents, Practices, Prospects. His previous book with Wageningen Academic Publishers is about the pre-plastic environmental history of fishery bycatch: Disentangled: Ethnozoology and Environmental Explanation of the Gloucester Sea Serpent.""

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Author:   Robert L. France
Publisher:   Wageningen Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Wageningen Academic Publishers
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789086863860

ISBN 10:   9086863868
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   15 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of contents Preface - Situating urban agriculture tours in time and 'splace' 13 References 16 Acknowledgements Part 1 - Background 21 Chapter 1. Place - Plants - People: the paradigm of regenerative agrourbanism as waymarked through ten formative books 23 1.1 Agrourbanism: 'talkin' 'bout ... [re]generation' 23 1.2 Agrorestorative nucleus 25 1.2.1 Agriculture 25 1.2.2 Restoration 27 1.3 Regenerative constituents 30 1.3.1 Place 30 1.3.2 Plants 31 1.3.3 People 33 References 35 Chapter 2. Narrative scholarship and peripatetic phenomenology as landscape research 39 2.1 Sensorial embodied experience 39 2.2 Thick descriptions 40 2.3 Walking methodology 42 References 44 Part 2 - Visits 47 Chapter 3. Healing economies: business and tourism 49 3.1 Commercial enterprises 49 3.1.1 London Cru Urban Winery (London, UK) 51 3.1.2 Brother Nature Produce (Detroit, MI, USA) 53 3.1.3 Hope Blooms (Halifax, NS, Canada) 54 3.1.4 Dill's Pumpkin Farm (Windsor, NS, Canada) 56 3.1.5 Fresh City Farms (Toronto, ON, Canada) 58 3.1.6 Very Local Greens (Dartmouth, NS, Canada) 61 3.1.7 Food from the Sky (London, UK) 64 3.1.8 GrowUp Box Urban Farms (London, UK) 67 3.1.9 FARM:shop (London, UK) 70 3.1.10 Valley Grown Salads (Harlow, UK) 73 3.1.11 Zero Carbon Food (London, UK) 77 3.1.12 Lufa Farms (Montreal, PQ, Canada) 80 3.1.13 Case study lessons 86 3.2 Food market tourism 87 3.2.1 Plaza de Armas (Ancud, Isla Chiloe, Chile) 89 3.2.2 The Goods Shed (Canterbury, UK) 91 3.2.3 Kensington Market (Toronto, ON, Canada) 93 3.2.4 Haymarket (Boston, MA, USA) 95 3.2.5 Farmers' Markets (Halifax, NS, Canada) 97 3.2.6 Eastern Market (Detroit, MI, USA) 100 3.2.7 Feria Alcalde Jose Sandoval Gomez (Castro, Isla Chiloe, Chile) 102 3.2.8 St. Lawrence Market (Toronto, ON, Canada) 104 3.2.9 Mercado do Bolhao (Porto, Portugal) 107 3.2.10 El Mercadeo Central (Valencia, Spain) 109 3.2.11 Borough Market (London, UK) 112 3.2.12 Mercado de La Boqueria (Barcelona, Spain) 116 3.2.13 Markthal (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) 120 3.2.14 Case study lessons 125 References 126 Chapter 4. Healing connections: hope and education 131 4.1 Community sustaining gardens 131 4.1.1 Cultivate London (London, UK) 133 4.1.2 The Stop's Earlscourt Community Garden and Food Centre (Toronto, ON, Canada) 135 4.1.3 D-Town Farm (Detroit, MI, USA) 139 4.1.4 Regent Park Health Centre Community Garden (Toronto, ON, Canada) 142 4.1.5 Aghios Dimitrios Municipal Garden (Athens, Greece) 143 4.1.6 Brightmoor Alliance Youth Garden (Detroit, MI, USA) 146 4.1.7 Southside City Farm (Providence, RI, USA) 149 4.1.8 Kipos3 Community Garden and Urban Vineyard (Thessaloniki, Greece) 152 4.1.9 Common Roots Urban Farm (Halifax, NS, Canada) 155 4.1.10 Case study lessons 160 4.2 Educational farms 161 4.2.1 Kentish Town City Farm (London, UK) 164 4.2.2 Hackney City Farm (London, UK) 166 4.2.3 Vauxhall City Farm (London, UK) 169 4.2.4 Surrey Docks Farm (London, UK) 172 4.2.5 Mudchute Park and Farm (London, UK) 175 4.2.6 Spitalfields City Farm (London, UK) 179 4.2.6 Case study lessons 185 References 186 Chapter 5. Healing art: beautifully grown food 189 5.1 Art-filled gardens 189 5.1.1 Dalston Eastern Curve Garden (London, UK) 191 5.1.2 Fenway Victory Gardens (Boston, MA, USA) 194 5.1.3 Case study lessons 198 5.2 Artful gardens 199 5.2.1 Edible Estates (London, UK) 201 5.2.2 The Edible Bus Stop (London, UK) 203 5.2.3 Abbey Gardens (London, UK) 206 5.2.4 Carrot Green Roof and Garden (Toronto, ON, Canada) 210 5.2.5 Lafayette Greens (Detroit, MI, USA) 214 5.2.6 Case study lessons 219 References 219 Chapter 6. Healing heritage: restoring agri-culture 223 6.1 Heritage and homage 223 6.1.1 Spryfield Kidston Urban Farm (Halifax, NS, Canada) 226 6.1.2 Zorbis Office and Apartment Building (Athens, Greece) 228 6.1.3 Chiswick House Kitchen Garden (London, UK) 230 6.1.4 Riverdale Farm (Toronto, ON, Canada) 232 6.1.5 Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum (Halifax, NS, Canada) 234 6.1.6 Norsk Folkmuseum (Oslo, Norway) 238 6.1.7 Case study lessons 241 6.2 Civitas 242 6.2.1 Woodlands Farm Trust (London, UK) 244 6.2.2 Farm Centre's Legacy Garden (Charlottetown, PEI, Canada) 246 6.2.3 Mikveh Israel Agriculture School (Tel Aviv, Israel) 250 6.2.4 Les Hortillonnages (Amiens, France) 252 6.2.5 Yedikule Gardens (Istanbul, Turkey) 255 6.2.6 Parc Agrai de Baix Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain) 258 6.2.7 Case study lessons 263 References 263 Chapter 7. Healing sites and societies: regenerative landscape design 265 7.1 Structures and sites 265 7.1.1 60 Richmond Street Housing (Toronto, ON, Canada) 267 7.1.2 King's Cross Central Skip Garden (London, UK) 268 7.1.3 Hellinikon Airport Community Garden (Athens, Greece) 271 7.1.4 Greensgrow Farms (Philadelphia, PA, USA) 274 7.1.5 Evergreen Brick Works (Toronto, ON, Canada) 279 7.1.6 Artspace Wychwood Barns (Toronto, ON, Canada) 284 7.1.7 Allen Street Garden (Boston, MA, USA) 288 7.1.8 PERKA (Thessalonki, Greece) 290 7.1.9 Mill Creek Farm (Philadelphia, PA, USA) 292 7.1.10 Case study lessons 295 7.2 Souls and societies 296 7.2.1 Natural Growth Project (London, UK) 298 7.2.2 Forty Hall Vineyard (London, UK) 302 7.2.3 ReVision Urban Farm (Boston, MA, USA) 306 7.2.4 Earthworks Urban Farm (Detroit, MI, USA) 309 7.2.5 Detroit Dreams (Detroit, MI, USA) 313 7.2.6 Case study lessons 322 References 323

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Robert L. France is a world-renowned scientist in the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University, where he teaches courses on urban agriculture, ecohydrology, watershed management, conservation biology, and environmental restoration. For more than a decade he taught and conducted research on landscape architecture, land-use planning, and urban design at the Harvard Design School. Dr. France is the author or editor of twenty-two books and more than two hundred journal articles on a wide range of environmental subjects, which together have been cited more than ten thousand times in the professional literature. In 2010, he organized the first international academic conference on urban agriculture in Canada, which led to the publication of the edited volume Integrated Urban Agriculture: Precedents, Practices, Prospects. His previous book with Wageningen Academic Publishers is about the pre-plastic environmental history of fishery bycatch: Disentangled: Ethnozoology and Environmental Explanation of the Gloucester Sea Serpent.

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