Farming the City – Food as a Tool for Today's Urbanisation – Book Preview

Section 3 Urban Society; Citizens, Artists and Activists

The Selection

Epilogue

Adopt, Accept, Appreciate Debra Solomon/ Mariska van den Berg 80

Introducing the Selection 110

Food as a Tool – an Epilogue 211

35 projects See overleaf for contents 112

Conclusion 227

Community Food: the Role of Artists Alex Wilde/ Annechien Meier 86 The Trauma of Zagreb’s Torn Trees Sonja Leboš 90 Tokyo, a Fruitful City Chris Berthelsen/ Jared Braiterman/ Jess Mantell 94 Getting Started: How to Pilot a Successful Food Project Simone Plantinga/ Floor de Sera-de Jong 102

The Selection in Numbers 206

References 228 Credits of the images 230 Colophon 232

Farming the City – Food as a Tool for Today's Urbanisation – Book Preview

Published on Mar 11, 2013

CITIES Foundation

About

Farming the City is about how to use food a tool for today's urbanisation by employing effective and achievable small-scale local solutions. Yes, we live in challenging times, but we do not seek to alarm or demoralise our readers. Yes, 75 per cent of us will be living in cities by 2050, and we face serious issues regarding food miles, foodprints and CO2 emissions. But many of us have heard this story too many times and find global challenges too abstract, too remote and very difficult to solve in doable, practical ways. This book, however, offers affordable, achievable solutions: how the process of re-thinking our local food systems positively affects neighbourhoods, communities, politics and people.

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