Urban Agriculture

Exploring Serenbe

Terrain.org's newest "UnSprawl" case study explores the new Serenbe development, a mixed-use community of three hamlets anchored by an organic farm and striving to be an Atlanta-region destination for its restaurants, inn, and more.

13 October 2011 - 11:00am

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments

Converting Vacant Lots to Farms Can Feed Cleveland Population, Study Finds

A recent study found that a city could completely live off food grown from urban agriculture. Sharanbir Grewal, the study's author, discovered in his analysis of Cleveland that the city could produce up to 48 percent of the city's fresh produce.

14 September 2011 - 1:00pm

Smart Planet

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Lisa Feldstein

Food Trends

Fri, 05/20/2011 - 14:59

A comment I hear frequently from planners is that the focus on food and planning is “trendy”. I must admit that this puzzles me quite a bit. Professional planners in rural areas have concentrated on planning for agriculture – food planning – for decades. Before we had professional planners, human populations planned their communities around food, whether they were planning how best to follow herds for hunting, structuring early agricultural societies, or developing the first cities where food proximity and trade were central considerations.

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Community Gardens and Farms as Detroit Renewal Tools

As the city of Detroit struggles with population loss and dwindling industrial jobs, farms and community gardens offer the city a positive nudge.

20 May 2011 - 8:00am

The New York Times

Pittsburgh Puts Urban Agriculture On The Books

Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is promoting a number of green initiatives for the city, including new guidelines for the raising of chickens and honeybees in urban areas. The City Council approved the guidelines last week.

13 February 2011 - 9:00am

Pittsburgh Post Gazette

'Urban Farming 2.0' Takes Off

CNN looks at the next wave in urban agriculture: commercial-scale indoor farms that are hydroponic, climate controlled, and LED-lit.

24 December 2010 - 1:00pm

CNN Money

Urban Agriculture Craze Boon to Farmers in Japan

Japan's yard-less city dwellers are increasingly drawn to "weekend farming" plots rented from commercial farmers on the urban fringe. Could it help the country's struggling agriculture sector? Kenji Hall reports.

6 December 2010 - 10:00am

Los Angeles Times

Rethinking Detroit

Detroit reporter John Gallagher's new book "Reimagining Detroit" considers what it will take to remake The Motor City into a model that will work for the future.

17 November 2010 - 12:00pm

Model D

Urban Agriculture Program Gets Boost in Oakland

A small-scale urban agriculture project in Oakland, California is set to receive a $4 million grant to expand its work.

14 November 2010 - 9:00am

Grist

What Urban Agriculture Means for Urban Design

Charles Waldheim examines the current trend's roots in design and architectural history and how it might alter city form.

9 November 2010 - 1:00pm

Places

Warehouses to Urban Farms

Yesterday's infrastructure can become tomorrow's agriculture, says Ed Harwood, by converting underused industrial warehouses and factories to hydroponic and aeroponic growing.

27 September 2010 - 10:31am

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The Local Food Movement Goes Online

Online tools designed to connect local farmers with consumers are helping sustain the local food and urban agriculture movements.

16 September 2010 - 8:00am

Next American City

The Past and Future of Urban Agriculture

Urban agriculture is not a new idea. Grist's Tom Philpott says the renewed interest in the idea should look for good ideas from its past.

10 August 2010 - 8:00am

Grist

Eating a "Town Meal" With Local Food

To publicize an urban agriculture project in Middlesbrough, England, organizers threw a town meal for 8,000 people sharing the food grown by the gardens. The growing experiment was so popular that many locals don't want it to stop.

4 August 2010 - 7:00am

The Guardian U.K.

Urban Farming Rising

Urban agriculture is becoming a well-known idea all around the world. Most of it is done at the small-scale, but there's still the idea of creating large skyscraper farms to feed our cities. Smithsonian takes a look at the idea.

4 August 2010 - 6:00am

Smithsonian

Innovative Ideas for Urban Agriculture

Non-profit TerraformOne held a design contest for ideas for creating productive green spaces in cities. Winners include plans to put seniors to work as farmers and a global system of levees.

29 July 2010 - 1:00pm

ASLA's The Dirt blog

Stackable Agriculture

Famed architect Richard Meier was commissioned by Wallpaper Magazine to design a model for raising animals in an urban environment. The result is a design with agriculture stacked up on different planes of a skyscraper.

23 July 2010 - 11:00am

Architizer

A New Direction for New Urbanists

At the 18th Annual Congress for New Urbanists, Andres Duany announced 'Agrarian Urbanism' as his new planning emphasis. He believes that the success of New Urbanism has stultified its progress and reduced its potential.

15 June 2010 - 12:00pm

Fast Company

Locavore Movement, Ecological Concerns Spur Urban Apiaries

In an effort to help rebuild bee populations and support healthy diets and urban ecosystems, more cities are encouraging efforts at urban beekeeping.

21 May 2010 - 10:00am

The Globe and Mail

Could Detroit Feed Itself?

It may be one of the worst food deserts in the country, but Detroit has enough open land in the city's 103,000 vacant lots to become self-sufficient in terms of food production, argues Mark Dowie.

1 May 2010 - 9:00am

AlterNet