Title: Growing a Sustainable City?
Description: "Growing a Sustainable City? offers a critical 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 in the city has become a symbol of urban economic revitalization, sustainability, and - increasingly - 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 within the context of a large 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"--
Subjects: Urban agriculture, Agriculture, united states, Sustainable agriculture, Case studies, Sustainable urban development, Agriculture urbaine, Études de cas, Agriculture durable, Urbanisme durable, NATURE, Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Environmental Policy, SCIENCE, Earth Sciences, Geography, Städtische Flächennutzung, Landwirtschaft, Agrarboden, Städtischer Freiraum, Soziale Bewegung, Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung, Philadelphia (Pa.), USA