Title & Author:

Second nature urban agriculture : designing productive cities / edited by André Viljoen and Katrin Bohn.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

Description:

xi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: CPUL CITY -- 1 Urban Agriculture on the map -- Growth and challenges since 2005. -- The CPUL City concept / Bohn & Viljoen -- The new urban foodscape / Kevin Morgan -- Urban Agriculture as ordinary urban practice / Joe Nasr, June Komisar and Mark Gorgolewski -- 1.2 Utilitarian Dreams -- Food growing in urban landscapes. -- Productive life in the city / Bohn & Viljoen -- The city in the fabric of eco-social interdependence / Yrjö Haila -- Sueños Utilitarios / Yuneikys Villalonga -- 1.3 Environmental impact and Urban Agriculture -- Water, soil and air / Bohn & Viljoen -- Economies of scale / Gillean Denny -- Bricks and Nectar / Mikey Tomkins -- 1.4 Green Theory in practice and urban design -- Germany. -- The United Kingdom / Bohn & Viljoen -- Agential exchanges / Nishat Awan -- Shrinking cities and productive urban landscapes / Philipp Oswalt -- 1.5 Laboratories for Urban Agriculture: The USA -- New York City. -- Detroit / Bohn & Viljoen -- Policies to support Urban Agriculture / Nevin Cohen -- Community gardening in Berlin and New York / Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen -- Part 2 CPUL CITY -- 2.1 Action IUC: The Inventory of Urban Capacity -- Laboratory for Urban Agriculture. -- The Urban Agriculture Curtain. -- London Thames Gateway / Bohn & Viljoen -- Recording the unrecorded / Marit Rosol -- 2.2 Action U+D: Bottom-Up and Top-Down -- The Urban Farming Project. -- Spiel/Feld Marzahn / Bohn & Viljoen -- And every city deserves a Sweet Water and a Growing Power! / James Godsil -- Urbaniahoeve / Debra Solomon and Mariska van den Berg -- 2.3 Action Vis: Visualising Consequences -- Urban Nature Shoreditch. -- The Continuous Picnic. -- Urbane Agrikultur in Köln-Ehrenfeld / Bohn & Viljoen -- Initials CPUL / Sabine Voggenreiter -- 2.4 Action R: Researching for Change -- Unlocking Spaces. -- The Edible Campus. -- Growing Balconies / Bohn & Viljoen -- The devil is in the detail / Howard Lee, Stefan Jordan and Victor Coleman -- Alternative food networks as drivers of a food transition / Gianluca Brunori and Francesco Di Iacovo -- The moment before action / Bohn & Viljoen -- Part 3: CPUL Repository -- 3.1 What has happened since CPUL 2005? / Ken Elkes, Richard Wiltshire, David Crouch, Jorge Peña Diaz and Graeme Sherriff -- 3.2 The CPUL Repository of references.

Summary:

"Second Nature Urban Agriculture updates and extends the authors' concept for introducing productive urban landscapes, including urban agriculture, into cities as essential elements of sustainable urban infrastructure. It reviews recent research and projects on the subject and presents concrete actions aimed at making urban agriculture happen. As pioneering thinkers in this area, the authors bring a unique overview to contemporary developments and have the experience to judge opportunities and challenges facing those who wish to create more equitable, resilient, desirable and beautiful cities."--Publisher's information.

ISBN:

9780415540575 (hb ; alk. paper)
0415540577 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415540582 (pb ; alk. paper)
0415540585 (pb ; alk. paper)
(eb)
9781315771144
9781317674504 (ePub ebook)
9781317674511 (PDF ebook)
9781317674498 (Mobipocket ebook)

Subject:

Urban agriculture.
Agriculture urbaine.
Sustainable urban development

Added entries:

Bohn, Katrin, editor.
Viljoen, André (André M.), editor.
Bohn, Katrin editor of compilation, author.
Viljoen, André editor of compilation, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287832
Call No.: BIB 229235
Status: Available