- Urban Agriculture as a Social Inclusion Vector What Potential for Innovating Urban Regeneration Strategies?   click here to open paper content552 kb
by    Monardo, Bruno | bruno.monardo@uniroma1.it   click here to send an email to the auther(s) of this paper
Short Outline
The paper aims to explore the contribution that ‘urban agriculture’ (UA) in
its multifaceted forms can give to urban regeneration strategies,
particularly for fostering social inclusion in contemporary, fragmented
communities.
Abstract
The paper aims to explore the contribution that ‘urban agriculture’ (UA) in
its multifaceted forms can give to urban regeneration strategies,
particularly for fostering social inclusion in contemporary, fragmented
communities. The US experience in such fields of research and planning
practice, led by the need to improve healthy food access and eating habits,
is providing new strategies to pursue a valuable framework for agricultural
re-use and rezoning of vacant and derelict urban areas. The experience of
‘New Roots Community Farm’ within the distressed neighborhood of City
Heights in San Diego, California, shows intriguing potential, matching
social inclusion and physical-economic redevelopment.
Keywords
Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice
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