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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"urban agriculture"”.
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Urban Agriculture and Sustainability in Chicago
… is increasingly informing the organization of urban life. In the past 15 years, cities have sought to alleviate the dual effects of environmental degradation and a changing economy by introducing sustainable development initiatives. Policy makers and environmental activists have often praised …
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Geospatial Analysis to Site Urban Agriculture
The rapid expansion of urban systems in both area and population represents the most significant landuse/landcover change occurring in the world today. Urbanization is often accompanied by increasing environmental degradation. This degradation is related to stormwater runoff, air temperatures …
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Food system resilience contributions by urban agriculture
… and adapt to disruptions. The capacity of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UA) sites to provide resilience is an important part of nutritional security in cities. While research in this field is growing, there are gaps in understanding for resilience contributions from specific categories …
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Urban Agriculture Stormwater Management in California Cities
… within California are beginning to incorporate urban agriculture into their land use designations. Prompted by residents and local organizations, cities are hoping to capture the benefits that urban agriculture provides. Research has shown that urban agriculture renews and beautifies …
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Bringing Urban Agriculture to the University of Cincinnati
… of that population rapidly shifting to urban centers these basic needs are becoming more pressing. The paradigm of rural, monoculture agriculture has developed many systemic problems, several of which will only worsen as oil resources become limited. Additionally, as urbanization trends …
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Assessment of Exceptional Quality Biosolids for Urban Agriculture
… used as soil conditioners and fertilizers in agriculture and mine land reclamation, but application of Exceptional Quality (EQ) biosolids to rehabilitate anthropogenic soils for urban agriculture is recent and requires greater study to ensure their appropriate use. The objectives were: 1) to …
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Institutionalizing Urban Agriculture Can Provide More Than Hope for Poor San Franciscans: An analysis of the Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone Act (UAIZ)
<p>Cities have turned to urban agriculture (UA) as a means of revitalizing neighborhoods and addressing unmet food needs of urbanites. Farming the city has gained momentum and has become an important force in urban social landscapes and economics. UA has also sparked debates about the appropriate …
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From Garbage to Gardens: Urban Agriculture in Mexico City
… the food system of Mexico City; identify how the urban poor access food on an everyday basis; determine who participates in urban agriculture projects, and for what purpose; determine the nutritional, economic, physical and ecological impact urban agriculture has had on participants; and observe …
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Growing Communities: Urban Agriculture In Post-Katrina New Orleans
… Spanish, southern and Creole cultures. Recently, urban agriculture has come to the city as part of the rebuilding process following Hurricane Katrina. Many groups have sprung up across the city to create communal and private spaces aimed at growing food. Urban agriculture in New Orleans has been …
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A comparison of soil management systems for urban agriculture
Soil contamination is a universal concern of urban agriculture. Reliable soil management systems are desirable in order to provide ideal growing conditions for urban crops. Due to concerns such as soil contamination, alternative soil management systems (e.g. raised-beds) are necessary to provide …
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Urban agriculture and the youth: The youth's responses to urban agriculture projects in both the Du Noon and Joe Slovo Park townships (Milnerton)
Urban agriculture has been advocated by NGOs and development agencies as being a food security strategy, and an effective poverty alleviation measure. This view is reflected within the City of Cape Town, as the City's 2007 Urban Agriculture Policy illustrates. Since the initiation of the Policy, …
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Go Farm, Goleta: Urban Agriculture Protection for Eastern Goleta Valley
… of agricultural operations surrounded by suburban development in Santa Barbara County’s Eastern Goleta Valley: buffers between agriculture and other land uses, and agritourism. In the case of buffers, academic literature is examined to determine how effective buffers are at various tasks …
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When the cows come home : post post-industrial urban agriculture
… a coop model from an industrial model. Its urban location pits private and public against each other in conditions that force them to negotiate a truce.
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An Institute for Urban Agriculture: Architecture, Ecology and Urban Habitat
… how they work. This building, an Institute for Urban Agriculture, seeks to challenge that notion of separation. The design expresses architecturally the ways in which the technological systems and organic systems work together to sustain the mission of the Institute. Through every aspect of the …
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Sustainable urban agriculture: a sustainable adaptation strategy for the City of Cape Town? : Practices and views on sustainable urban agriculture and climate change in Cape Town
… associated with the benefits of sustainable urban agriculture areas in terms of adaptation to climate change in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area, South Africa. Urbanization and climate change are stressing urban areas in developing countries. Therefore, finding a development path towards …
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From Empty Lot to Garden Plot: Urban Agriculture in Chula Vista
<p>This project is an exploration of how agriculture can be incorporated into the fabric of the city of Chula Vista, which has both uniquely urban and suburban areas. The proposal is to integrate agriculture as a design tool to reconnect to the city’s agricultural past and as a model for cities of …
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Understanding the Impacts of Urban Agriculture in Gentrifying Neighborhoods in Denver
<p>Urban Agriculture is prominent in cities across the United States and has been studied in relation to food security, sustainability, and gentrification. Urban agriculture is context specific and can include individual gardens, community gardens, guerilla gardening, and urban farms. Urban …
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The economic development potential of urban agriculture at the community scale
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1980.
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Cultivating the City: Urban Agriculture and Agrarian Questions in Brooklyn, New York
… food is now highly politicized. In this context, urban agriculture enjoys renewed interest as a primary space to engage the politics of food. In this dissertation, I explore urban agriculture as a window into food politics. Using the contemporary period of urban agriculture expansion in Brooklyn, …
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Factors to improve project performance : lessons from a Chilean urban agriculture program
This thesis investigates a Chilean urban agriculture project that has been underway for more than twenty years in Tome, a small coastal town located near the regional capital of Concepcion. Initiated in the early 1980s by the Chilean non-governmental organization, CET SUR, the program works on …
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