Food and the city : urban agriculture and the new food revolution / by Jennifer Cockrall-King.
Cockrall-King, Jennifer, 1971-
2012
S494.5.U72 C63 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Food and the city : urban agriculture and the new food revolution / by Jennifer Cockrall-King.
Author Cockrall-King, Jennifer, 1971-
ISBN 9781616144586 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1616144580 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2012.
Language English
Description 372 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number S494.5.U72 C63 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.8
Summary Discusses how urban agriculture can help revolutionize the environmentally unsustainable modern food industry, providing evidence of thriving urban farms within "food deserts" and describing the global movement towards alternative food production.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-358) and index.
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The facade of the modern grocery store
Industrial food
Industrial eaters
A world in food crisis
The new food movement and the rise of urban agriculture
Paris: the roots of modern urban agriculture
London, capital growth
Southern California and Los Angeles: a tale of two farms
Vancouver: Canada's left coast
Toronto: Cabbagetown 2.0
Milwaukee: growing a social revolution
Detroit: praying for an economic revolution
Chicago: the vertical farm
Cuba: urban agriculture on a national scale
Conclusion: greening and eating our cities.

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