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City of Forests, City of Farms
Sustainability Planning for New York City's Nature
Lindsay K. Campbell (Author)
9781501707506
Hardback, published 15 October 2017
290 pages, 12 b&w halftones, 2 maps, 3 charts - 12 Halftones, black and white - 2 Maps - 3 Charts
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.907 kg
Both theoretically rich and empirically robust and will be of interest to anyone who is grappling with the whys and hows of urban greening and sustainability politics, from urban planners, community activists, academics, and everyday urbanites whose lives are intimately connected to green spaces in the city. Provides great insight on what one might call the "political ecology" of cities, and helps us to understand how spatial change is engendered by, and reflected in, the relationship between bureaucratic systems and social movements. City of Forests, City of Farms serves as an interesting story of how urban politics and plan implementation play out in real life and provides some basis for optimism about future efforts. The author employs interviews and archival analysis as well as actor network theory, urban regime theory, and other frameworks to describe the progress of the two environmental concerns. In its careful and thorough analysis of forestry and community gardening in the largest city in the United States, the work represents a model for how to convert a dissertation on an important topic into an engaging and timely book. City of Forests, City of Farms is both theoretically rich and empirically robust and will be of interest to anyone who is grappling with the whys and hows of urban greening and sustainability politics, from urban planners, community activists, academics, and everyday urbanites whose lives are intimately connected to green spaces in the city.
City of Forests, City of Farms is 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 Farms is 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.
List of Tables, Maps, and Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Greening New York City
2. Creating PlaNYC
3. City of Forests
4. Beyond Planting
5. Growing in the City
6. City of Farms
7. Constructing the "Greener, Greater" City
8. City as Ecosystems
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index