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City of Forests, City of Farms

Lindsay K. Campbell

2017

Overview

City of Forests, City of Farmsis a history of recent urban forestry and agriculture policy and programs in New York City. Centered on the 2007 initiative PlaNYC, this account tracks the development of policies that increased sustainability efforts in the city and dedicated more than $400 million dollars to trees via the MillionTreesNYC campaign. Lindsay K. Campbell uses PlaNYC to consider how and why nature is constructed in New York City. Campbell regards sustainability planning as a process that unfolds through the strategic interplay of actors, the deployment of different narrative frames, and the mobilizing and manipulation of the physical environment, which affects nonhuman animals and plants as well as the city's residents. Campbell zeroes in on a core omission in PlaNYC's original conception and funding: Despite NYC having a long tradition of community gardening, particularly since the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, the plan contained no mention of community gardens or urban farms. Campbell charts the change of course that resulted from burgeoning public interest in urban agriculture and local food systems. She shows how civic groups and elected officials crafted a series of visions and plans for local food systems that informed the 2011 update to PlaNYC.City of Forests, City of Farmsis a valuable tool that allows us to understand and disentangle the political decisions, popular narratives, and physical practices that shape city greening in New York City and elsewhere.

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Subject: ARCHITECTURE / ARCHITECTURE & PRESERVATION / ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning / Architecture and Architectural History / City planning / City planning -- Environmental aspects -- New York (State) -- New York / community engagement / community gardening / Environmental aspects / Environmental Conservation & Protection / Environmental policy / Environmental policy -- New York (State) -- New York / Environmental Science / green infrastructure / Green movement / Green movement -- New York (State) -- New York / History / HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) / Human ecology / Human ecology -- New York (State) -- New York / land use planning / Land use, Urban / Land use, Urban -- Environmental aspects -- New York (State) -- New York / NATURE / NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection / nature conservation / New York / New York (State) / New York City / NEW YORK HISTORY / PlanNYC / Sustainable living / Sustainable living -- New York (State) -- New York / Urban & Land Use Planning / Urban agriculture / Urban agriculture -- New York (State) -- New York / Urban ecology (Biology) / Urban ecology (Biology) -- New York (State) -- New York / Urban forestry / Urban forestry -- New York (State) -- New York / URBAN STUDIES / urban sustainability
• ISBN: 9781501707506, 1501707507, 9781501714702, 1501714708, 1501714791, 9781501714795