Farming Cuba : urban agriculture from the ground up / Carey Clouse.

Main entry:

Clouse, Carey, 1979- author.

Title & Author:

Farming Cuba : urban agriculture from the ground up / Carey Clouse.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York, New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

191 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Food crisis: urban emergency: community resilience in Cuba and New Orleans / Zachary Lamb -- Urban farming in Cuba -- Networks and garden typologies -- Gardens of pleasure and survival / Fritz Haeg -- Evolving design roles / Jorge Pena Diaz -- Design and planning -- The productive city / Jonathan Tate.

Summary:

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba found itself solely responsible for feeding a nation that had grown dependent on imports and trade subsidies. With fuel, fertilizers, and pesticides disappearing overnight, citizens began growing their own organic produce anywhere they could find space, on rooftops, balconies, vacant lots, and even school playgrounds. By 1998 there were more than 8,000 urban farms in Havana producing nearly half of the country's vegetables. What began as a grassroots initiative had, in less than a decade, grown into the largest sustainable agriculture initiative ever undertaken, making Cuba the world leader in urban farming. Featuring a wealth of rarely seen material and intimate portraits of the environment, this text details the innovative design strategies and explores the social, political, and environmental factors that helped shape this pioneering urban farming program.

ISBN:

9781616892005 (alk. paper)
1616892005 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Urban agriculture Cuba.
Landscape design Cuba.
Agriculture urbaine Cuba.
Aménagement paysager Cuba.
Landscape design.
Urban agriculture.
Städtische Landwirtschaft
Cuba.
Kuba

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286562
Call No.: BIB 226961
Status: Available

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