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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.40,Issue5,P.657-678

语言

英文

关键字

SOUTH CENTRAL FARM; URBAN AGRICULTURE; CITY; DETROIT; FOOD; INSTITUTIONS; GROWTH; SYSTEM

作者单位

[Pothukuchi, Kameshwari] Wayne State Univ, Urban Studies & Planning, Detroit, MI 48202 USA. Pothukuchi, K (reprint author), Wayne State Univ, Dept Urban Studies & Planning, 3198 Fac Adm Bldg FAB,656 W Kirby St, Detroit, MI 48202 USA. E-Mail: k.pothukuchi@wayne.edu

摘要

Redevelopment and food sustainability advocates both support urban agriculture as a productive use of vacant land in Rustbelt cities, where vacancy is endemic. However, the first group typically envisions agriculture only as temporary, whereas the second seeks to harness vacancy to establish an enduring agriculture that supplies fresh produce to underserved neighborhoods and strengthens local food systems. In this article, I investigate whether and how vacant land policies support agriculture in Cleveland, a city that adopted a sustainability strategy in 2008 and whose governance is notable for balancing growth and equity concerns. Agriculture was embraced as community development in the wake of the foreclosure crisis and fostered with policies, programs, and resources. However, paradoxically for a sustainability agenda, land is transferred for agriculture for only short periods at a time. Despite claims of food system benefits for neighborhoods, agriculture is organized primarily to serve other purposes such as land stabilization and social service provision. Sustaining agriculture over the long term in neighborhoods experiencing abandonment will require an acknowledgment of the significant value created by the activity and new strategies that interlink land, planning, organizing, and resources.