Resources

Relevant Publications

Alternatives and the Rooftop Garden Project, 2008, Guide to Setting Up Your Own Edible Rooftop Garden

American Planning Association, 2007, Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning, Final Policy Guide, May 11, 2007.

Andraos, Amale, and Dan Wood, 2010, Above the Pavement – the Farm! Architecture & Agriculture at P.F.1, Inventory Books, Princeton Architectural Press, New York

Architectural Design, Nov. 2002, special issue on “Food + Architecture”, guest ed. Karen Franck, vol. 72, no. 6.

Architectural Design, May 2005, special issue on “Food + the City”, guest ed. by Karen Franck, vol. 75, no 3.

Astyk, Sharon, and Aaron Newton (2009). A Nation of Farmers. British Columbia: New Society Publishers.

Bailey, Patterson & Tischer, 2007, Plotluck: Urban Agriculture in Canada, CCA

Beatley, Timothy (2000). Green Urbanism: Learning from European cities. Washington: Island Press.

Bhatt, Vikram, and Rune Kongshaug, ed. Making the Edible Landscape 1: A Study of Urban Agriculture in Montreal, McGill Minimum Cost Housing Group, Montreal.

Borasi, Giovanna, and Mirko Zardini, ed., 2008, Actions: What You Can Do with the City, CCA

Campbell, Lindsay, and Anne Wiesen, ed., Jan. 2009, Restorative Commons: Creating Health and Well-being through Urban Landscapes, USDA Forest Service, Newtown Square, PA

de la Salle, Janine & Mark Holland, 2010,  Agricultural urbanism: Handbook for building sustainable food and agriculture systems in 21st century cities (Green Frigate books)

Dubbeling, Marielle, Henk de Zeeuw, and Rene van Veenhuizen (2010). Cities, Poverty and Food: Multi-Stakeholder Policy and Planning in Urban Agriculture. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing Ltd.

Guerra, Michael, 2000, The edible container garden, Gaia Books.

Haeg, Fritz, 2008, Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, revised edition (Metropolis Books)

Hodgson, Kimberley, Marcia Campbell, and Martin Bailkey (2011). Urban Agriculture: Growing Healthy, Sustainable Places. Chicago: American Planning Association.

Holland Barrs Planning Group, Mar. 2007, Designing Urban Agriculture Opportunities for Southeast False Creek, City of Vancouver

Holland Barrs Planning Group, Nov. 2002, Southeast False Creek Urban Agriculture Strategies, City of Vancouver

Holmgren, David, 2002, Permaculture: principles and Pathways beyond sustainability, Holmgren Design Services     

Howard, Ebenezer, 1898, Garden cities of to-morrow

Journal of Planning Education & Research, Summer 2004, special issue on “Planning for Community Food Systems”, guest ed. Jerome Kaufman, 23:4

Knechtel, John, ed, 2007, Food, MIT Press

Lim, C.J. & Liu, E., 2010, Smartcities and Eco-warriors, Routledge

Koc, Mustafa (1999). For Hunger-proof Cities: Sustainable urban food systems. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre.

Leung, Julia, Aug. 2008, Rainwater Harvesting 101, Council on the Environment for New York City

Linn, Karl, 2007, Building Commons and Community (New Village Press, Oakland, CA)

mees weis architects, Oct. 2008, Gardenhaus GreenThumb Guidebook, GreenThumb, New York

Mohsen, Mostafavi (2010). Ecological Urbanism. Baden, Switzerland: Lars Muller Publishers.

Mougeot, Luc J.A. (2006). Growing Better Cities: Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Development. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre.

Mougeot, Luc J.A. (2005). Agropolis: The social, political and environmental dimensions of urban agriculture. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre.

Open House International, 2009, special issue on “Designing Edible Landscapes”, guest ed. by Vikram Bhatt and Leila Marie Farah, vol. 34, no. 2.

Palassio, C. & Wilcox, A., ed., 2009, The Edible City- Toronto's food from farm to fork, Coach House Books, Toronto

Perspectives (The Journal of the Ontario Association of Architects), 2009, Special issue on “Architecture & Food”

Redwood, Mark, ed., 2009, Agriculture in Urban Planning: Generating Livelihoods and Food Security, Earthscan

RUAF: Urban Agriculture Magazine (various issues)

Ruppenthal, R.J. , 2008, Fresh food from small spaces,  Chelsea Green

Smit, Jac, Annu Ratta and Joe Nasr, 1996, Urban Agriculture: Food, Jobs and Sustainable Cities, UN Development Programme, New York

Steel, Carolyn, 2008, Hungry City: How Food Shape our Lives (Chatto & Windus/Random House, London)

Stringer, Scott M., (Manhattan Borough President) 2010,  Food NYC: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Food System

Trail, Gayla, 2010, Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces (Clarkson Potter / Random House)

Urban Farm Magazine (various issues)

Viljoen Andre, Katrin Bohn K. and Joe Howe, ed. 2005, CPULs – Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities (Architectural Press/ Elsevier, Oxford and Burlington, Mass.)

Waldheim, Charles (2006). The Landscape Urbanism Reader. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1958, The Living City  [Broadacre City]

Wright, Julia, 2008, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity, Earthscan

Wilson, Alex (2009). Growing Food Locally: Integrating Agriculture Into the Built
Environment, Environmental Building News, Feb 2009.