Urban and Regional Agriculture: Building Resilient Food Systems (Paperback)

INTRODUCTION
1. Preface: premise and overview
2. Food resource cycles as new urban infrastructure
3. Global agriculture in crisis ? food system in crisis - cities in crisis
4. Integrating agriculture and urban systems: growing food in and around cities
5. Social, economic and environmental benefits: air, water, energy, climate, local prosperity

Part 1: Context and setting, and a summary
6. Global food supply chains versus local and regional systems
7. Food landscapes and water conservation 8. Local food control and social equity
9. The energy of food: renewable heat and power for sustenance
10. Climate change responses and urban resilience
11. Regenerating cities for food

Part 2: Cities and agriculture
12. History, present and outlook
13. From farm to city: cities built on farm plots (Japan, Germany, China, Africa)
14. Agricultural cities: traditions and trends
15. Urban space types: from leftover spaces to zoning for food
16. Transition towns and farming transformations
17. Farming the conurbation: peri-urban approaches
18. Central urban systems: food spaces and webs
19. Digestible city- and landscapes in regulatory frameworks

Part 3: State of growing systems
20. Urban permaculture
21. Organic farming
22. Hydroponics
23. Aquaponics
24. Aquaculture
25. Hybrid and symbiotic approaches
26. Urban agricultural risk management: soil health, air purity, water

Part 4: Architecture of food: support structures and constructs
27. Buildings and agriculture
28. Architecture and structures
29. Horizontal systems
30. Vertical farming
31. Rooftop systems
32. Facade systems

Part 5: Regulatory frameworks and incentives
33. National, georegional and global frameworks
34. Urban agriculture law and legislation
35. Zoning approaches to food production
36. Capacity incentivized planning

Part 6: Markets and distribution
37. New markets and edible currency
38. Urban agriculture markets
39. Community production networks
40. Ownership and communal consumption
41. Cloud farming: operating open systems
42. Big data analytics for food empowerment

Part 7: Global differences and potentials
43. Characterizing and interpreting cases from different continents
44. China: Shanghai
45. Europe: Berlin
46. Southamerica: Buenos Aires
47. North America: Portland
48. Southeast Asia: Hanoi
49. Australia: Perth
50. Africa: Nairobi
References and resources; directory