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The New Urban Agriculture
Island Press
October 2009
On Sale: October 1, 2009
180 pages
ISBN: 159726587X
EAN: 9781597265874
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Public Produce makes a uniquely contemporary case not for
central government intervention, but for local government
involvement. In what Darrin Nordahl calls “municipal
agriculture,” elected officials, municipal planners, local
policymakers and public space designers are turning to the
abundance of land under public control (parks, plazas,
streets, city squares, parking lots, as well as the grounds
around libraries, schools, government offices, and even
jails) to grow food. Public agencies at one time were at
best indifferent, or at worst dismissive, of food production
in the city. Today, public officials recognize that food
insecurity is affecting everyone, not just the innercity
poor, and that policies seeking to restructure the
production and distribution of food to the tens of millions
of people living in cities have immediate benefits to
community-wide health and prosperity.
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