Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Cities and Agriculture in America
Agriculture has been a part of urban life across the nearly four centuries of American history. This chapter uses a broad framing of city (including urban, suburban, and hinterland) and of agriculture as a practice of food production (regardless of scale). This expanded frame opens our vision to the richness of the urban experience, bringing feral hogs, urban horses, and suburban sprawl into the frame alongside community gardens, truck farming, and farmers' markets. The chapter also positions the city within a web of economic and ecological relationships, revealing it as simultaneously a site of agricultural production, a hub of agricultural marketing, and a center for agricultural consumption. Finally, it examines the constraints on urban and suburban agricultural practice set by the political economy of land development.
Cities and Agriculture in America
Agriculture has been a part of urban life across the nearly four centuries of American history. This chapter uses a broad framing of city (including urban, suburban, and hinterland) and of agriculture as a practice of food production (regardless of scale). This expanded frame opens our vision to the richness of the urban experience, bringing feral hogs, urban horses, and suburban sprawl into the frame alongside community gardens, truck farming, and farmers' markets. The chapter also positions the city within a web of economic and ecological relationships, revealing it as simultaneously a site of agricultural production, a hub of agricultural marketing, and a center for agricultural consumption. Finally, it examines the constraints on urban and suburban agricultural practice set by the political economy of land development.
Cities and Agriculture in America
Hurt, R. Douglas (Herausgeber:in) / Baker, Andrew C. (Autor:in)
10.05.2022
15 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Urban Agriculture: Practices to Improve Cities
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