Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries. This book focuses on the sustainable development of urban agriculture and its relationship to food planning in cities.

It brings together the best revised and updated papers from the Sixth Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) conference on Sustainable Food Planning. The main emphasis is on the latest research and thinking on spatial planning and design, showing how urban agriculture provides opportunities to develop and enhance the spatial quality of urban environments. Chapters address various topics such as a new theoretical model for understanding urban agriculture, how urban agriculture contributes to restoring our connections to nature, and the limitations of the garden city concept to food security. Case studies are included from several European countries, including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Turkey and the UK, as well as Australia, Canada, Cameroon, Ethiopia and the United States (New York and Los Angeles).

Rob Roggema is Owner/Director of Cittaideale, Research Office for Adaptive Planning and Design (www.cittaideale.eu) in Wageningen, the Netherlands. He is also Adjunct Professor of Planning with Complexity at the Centre for Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He is Director of the Regional Resilience Research Institute, a global institute to help regions becoming more resilient, physically, socially and mentally. Until 2015 he was Professor of Design for Urban Agriculture.