29, 30 October, 2010
Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)
Four themes are defined as entry points into the discussion of ‘sustainable food planning’:
(1) Urban Agriculture
(2) Integrating Health, Environment and Society
(3) Food in Urban Design and Planning
(4) Urban Food Governance

Urban Agriculture

Convenors: Prof. Dr. Han Wiskerke and Jan-Willem van der Schans (Rural Sociology Group – Wageningen University)

Urban agriculture receives more and more attention today, in the developed as well as the developing world. Urban agriculture is the growing of food in and around cities, using urban resources such as vacant plots of urban land, run-off water, volunteer labour, etc. and producing goods and services for the urban market.

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Virag Puri from Gotham Greens poses on the roof.

Investigating Urban Agriculture

Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010,
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Knoll Showroom,
76 Ninth Avenue, 11th Floor,
New York, NY 10001

Please join Urban Green Council for a lively panel discussion of the issues surrounding urban agriculture and its potential applications in New York City.

Locating the production of food in our cities and on the buildings within the city (Building Integrated Agriculture) offers a valuable response to two major challenges of modern urban living: the need to reduce the distance food travels before arriving on the plate of urban consumers and the need to reduce the environmental impact of buildings.  Cultivation of food crops within the built environment can reduce our environmental footprint, cut transportation costs, enhance food security, save energy, and enrich the physical surroundings of building occupants.

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See Martha’s Chicken Show!

Martha shares footage of her Bedford chicken coops and chats with Susan Orlean about the newfound popularity of these friendly birds. Audience members bring their own chickens to the show.

Now playing: Martha’s Chicken Coops

See the show playing here.

Martha also is a vegetable gardener extraordinaire. More on the next page.

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