Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States

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Examines the potential and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture in the United States

Foreword.- Preface.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- II Theories and Foundations: Ethics, Urban agriculture, and Planning.- Chapter 2 Theoretical Foundations.- Chapter 3 The Food System: A Stranger to the Planning Field.- Chapter 4 From Theory to Practice: Reflections from planning practice.- Chapter 5 Urban agriculture: linking ethics and food.- Chapter 6 The Intersection of Planning, Urban Agriculture, and Food Justice.- Chapter 7 Systems thinking.- III Practical Ethics: Urban Agriculture in US Cities.- Chapter 8 Urban agriculture practice (National/Big Picture).- Chapter 9 Experience from Detroit and Cleveland.- Chapter 10 Experience from Buffalo (North east).- Chapter 11 Urban Agriculture as Public Good: Experience from Philly and Chicago.- Chapter 12 Experience from West (Las Cruces.- Chapter 13 Experience from South (Albany, GA).- Chapter 14 NYC.- Chapter 15 Experience from Michigan county.- IV Public Policy Responses to Urban Agriculture.- Chapter 16 Public PolicyResponse (National/Big Picture).- Chapter 17 Baltimore.- Chapter 18 Denver.- Chapter 19 Austin.- Chapter 20 Minneapolis.- Chapter 21 Seattle.- Chapter 22 Madison .- Chapter 23 The Relational Infrastructure of Food Systems Planning and Policy Development.- V Pedagogy of Capacity-Building through Urban Agriculture.- Chapter 24 UA as a Locus for Pedagogy.- Chapter 25 Studio-based education.- Chapter 26 Distance-based education.- Chapter 27 Community-university partnerships.- Chapter 28 Pedagogy of Urban Agriculture.- V Directions for the Future.- Chapter 29 From the outside in: European perspectives.- Chapter 30 Comparison of US-Global South.- Chapter 31 Conclusion: Ideas for the Future.- Bibliography.