Planning Urban Foodscapes

Authors

  • Nevin Cohen The New School

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2011.021.016

Keywords:

Food Systems, Urban Agriculture

Abstract

First paragraph:

One of the most exciting new areas of planning and development involves innovative strategies to reintegrate food production and distribution into our communities. Agricultural Urbanism, edited by senior planners at HB Lanarc, a Vancouver-based planning and design firm, is a collection of planning, policy, and design concepts to do just that. The book outlines a program — a manifesto, really — for "building a place around food" (p. 9). This requires rethinking the role of food in cities, transforming the messy elements of food production and processing functions that have been relegated to the "back of the house" to the "front of the house," and making food systems visible in communities so that people become reconnected to the sources of their food and better understand the nature of food production. In describing the contours of agricultural urbanism, the authors ambitiously discuss the whole gamut of the food system, including food access, the food economy, infrastructure, education, place-making, policy, and environmental protection....

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Author Biography

Nevin Cohen, The New School

Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies; The New School for Public Engagement; New York, NY USA.
Cover of "Agricultural Urbanism"

Published

2011-11-30

How to Cite

Cohen, N. (2011). Planning Urban Foodscapes. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2(1), 319–321. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2011.021.016