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Agricultural Urbanism; Handbook for Building Sustainable Food Systems in 21st Century Cities

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Faddish and uninterested in tough questions

By C. Ackerman - February 2, 2011

As someone who (a) has a professional interest in land use and food policy and who (b) shelled out the twenty-plus bucks on the recommendation of a friend, I had hoped to like this book. But in truth, I found it frustrating, for it turned to be of a particular kind of design book that I don't find useful. (But I hope people who like that genre can read through my criticisms and identify it as something that they may like.)

Agricultural Urbanism is one of those books whose strategize is to categorize and exhort. In categorizing, it says that a functioning system needs to have a list of characteristics and then it urges that every one of those characteristics be done appropriately. One example epitomizes this:

>Buildings are some of the most important elements in urban design for defining a community's function and character. Surrounding any building is the open space of a city, including its streets, plazas, parks, private gardens, and waterfronts. The interface... read more

Comes with many intriguing ideas, highly recommended

By Midwest Book Review - November 8, 2010

Urban and rural don't have to be mutually exclusive things. "Agricultural Urbanism: Handbook for Building Sustainable Food & Agriculture System in 21st Century Cities" is a discussion of how within cities, food can be grown to help combat the growing demand of the world's population by encouraging greater self-sustainability. Gardens, farming with free space and more, is a call for more urban dwellers to embrace agriculture as something more than for the farms. "Agricultural Urbanism" comes with many intriguing ideas, highly recommended.

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