Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture
Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture
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公共产品：新都市农业
DOI：
10.5860/choice.47-3769
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Darrin Nordahl
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作者：
Darrin Nordahl
“公共产品”为中央政府干预，但地方政府参与制定粮食政策提供了一个独特的当代案例。在达林·诺达尔（Darrin Nordahl）所谓的“城市农业”中，民选官员、市政规划者、地方决策者和公共空间设计者正在利用公共控制下的大量土地（公园、广场、街道、城市广场、停车场以及图书馆、学校、政府办公室甚至监狱周围的土地）种植粮食。公共机构曾一度对城市的粮食生产漠不关心，甚至不屑一顾。今天，政府官员认识到，粮食不安全影响到每个人，而不仅仅是市中心的穷人，寻求调整粮食生产和向数千万城市居民分配粮食的政策对整个社区的健康和繁荣有直接的好处。这本书介绍了城市食品日益增长的努力，说明既有必要，也有愿望，以补充我们现有的食品生产方法以外的城市与机会内的城市。每一项努力都是为了让公众更容易获得新鲜农产品。但每个人都做得更多：加强地方感和建立社区;滋养穷人并向企业家提供经济援助;促进食品扫盲和良好健康;以及允许“偶然的支持”。诺达尔写道，在我们的城市生活中加入一点农业主义，会有很多收获。
"Public Produce" makes a uniquely contemporary case not for central government intervention, but for local government involvement in shaping food policy. 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 about, or at worst dismissive of, food production in the city. Today, public officials recognize that food insecurity is affecting everyone, not just the inner-city 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. This book profiles urban food growing efforts, illustrating that there is both a need and a desire to supplement our existing food production methods outside the city with opportunities inside the city. Each of these efforts works in concert to make fresh produce more available to the public. But each does more too: reinforcing a sense of place and building community; nourishing the needy and providing economic assistance to entrepreneurs; promoting food literacy and good health; and allowing for 'serendipitous sustenance'. There is much to be gained, Nordahl writes, in adding a bit of agrarianism into our urbanism.