Urban agriculture and community values : the green transformation of cities / Lisa Newton.

This book addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and sketches the 'community economy' that grounds agricultural enterprise more accurately than the industrial model. In its current practice, agriculture is (in the United States but increasingly in the rest of the world) unsustainable...

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Main Author: Newton, Lisa H., 1939- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, ©2020.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Part I. A tale of three cities -- Havana, Cuba -- Detroit, Michigan -- Burlington, Vermont -- A tale of many values : what can we learn from the cities? -- Part II. Building the urban farm -- Growing the city as a community -- Commercial farming in (and around) the city -- The farm in the sky -- Reflections : retrieving the values -- Postscript : an urban farm in process. 
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