On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement: Reflections in Tribute to Jac Smit
First paragraph: In the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century, a number of reformers responded to the horrific conditions of life in the expanding industrial cities of Europe and North America by calling for the transformation of modern cities through a rationalized system for prod...
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Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
2016-10-01
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| author | Anne C. Bellows Joe Nasr Diana Lee-Smith Luc J. A. Mougeot Michael Levenston Peter Mann Katherine Brown Jerry Kaufman |
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In the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century, a number of reformers responded to the horrific conditions of life in the expanding industrial cities of Europe and North America by calling for the transformation of modern cities through a rationalized system for producing built environments that can accommodate growing populations while improving living conditions. As Carolyn Steel has rightly pointed out, food has long shaped our cities (Steel, 2008), and food did hold a central place in the theories of many of the key early thinkers about cities and land.[1] These theories were intimately connected to urban reforms through a range of progressive but paternalistic urban design interventions that consciously sought to weave the green shade and restfulness of the countryside into city parks, street tree plantings, urban allotment gardens, and green river and canal banks. On a darker note, the healthy relaxation touted by garden enthusiasts also served to shift the burden of sustenance away from industrialists and fair-wage policies and onto the shoulders of urbanizing families, especially the women in them (cf. Bellows, 2004). But on balance, garden spaces in densely populated cities and factory settlements offered valuable nourishment and quiet retreats from the chaos of work and cycles of economic instability and war.
[1] Just to cite some key theorists who gave a central place to the food system in their thinking about urban settlements: Henry George, von Thünen, Ebenezer Howard, Patrick Geddes, Frank Lloyd Wright. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-999567da96424c8baa4fdf89eb02ce702023-09-02T15:30:36ZengLyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food SystemsJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development2152-08012016-10-011210.5304/jafscd.2010.012.00924On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement: Reflections in Tribute to Jac SmitAnne C. Bellows0Joe Nasr1Diana Lee-Smith2Luc J. A. Mougeot3Michael Levenston4Peter Mann5Katherine Brown6Jerry Kaufman7University of HohenheimRyerson UniversityMazingira InstituteInternational Development Research CenterCity FarmerWhyHungerSouthside Community Land TrustUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonFirst paragraph: In the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century, a number of reformers responded to the horrific conditions of life in the expanding industrial cities of Europe and North America by calling for the transformation of modern cities through a rationalized system for producing built environments that can accommodate growing populations while improving living conditions. As Carolyn Steel has rightly pointed out, food has long shaped our cities (Steel, 2008), and food did hold a central place in the theories of many of the key early thinkers about cities and land.[1] These theories were intimately connected to urban reforms through a range of progressive but paternalistic urban design interventions that consciously sought to weave the green shade and restfulness of the countryside into city parks, street tree plantings, urban allotment gardens, and green river and canal banks. On a darker note, the healthy relaxation touted by garden enthusiasts also served to shift the burden of sustenance away from industrialists and fair-wage policies and onto the shoulders of urbanizing families, especially the women in them (cf. Bellows, 2004). But on balance, garden spaces in densely populated cities and factory settlements offered valuable nourishment and quiet retreats from the chaos of work and cycles of economic instability and war. [1] Just to cite some key theorists who gave a central place to the food system in their thinking about urban settlements: Henry George, von Thünen, Ebenezer Howard, Patrick Geddes, Frank Lloyd Wright.https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/24Urban Agriculture |
| spellingShingle | Anne C. Bellows Joe Nasr Diana Lee-Smith Luc J. A. Mougeot Michael Levenston Peter Mann Katherine Brown Jerry Kaufman On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement: Reflections in Tribute to Jac Smit Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development Urban Agriculture |
| title | On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement: Reflections in Tribute to Jac Smit |
| title_full | On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement: Reflections in Tribute to Jac Smit |
| title_fullStr | On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement: Reflections in Tribute to Jac Smit |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement: Reflections in Tribute to Jac Smit |
| title_short | On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement: Reflections in Tribute to Jac Smit |
| title_sort | on the past and the future of the urban agriculture movement reflections in tribute to jac smit |
| topic | Urban Agriculture |
| url | https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/24 |
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