A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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 (editor) / Baker, Andrew C. (author)
2022-05-10
15 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Urban Agriculture: Practices to Improve Cities
| British Library Online Contents | 2011