Course: SAT 230 Managing Food Production Systems in the Urban Landscape

Reading and Multimedia Assignments

Reading Assignments
Reading Assignments

The Politics of Urban Farming

This reading has both positive and negative comments on both political and social aspects of urban farming.  Most of the negatives don’t actually have to do with urban farming, but rather in how it is instituted and who is in control.  Pay attention to those aspects when reading this article.

Urban Farm-acology

This article discusses the political and social ramifications of the reduced amount of land available for urban farming in the Hackney borough of London and the implications for lower income people, both by being displaced through “gentrification” and by the reduction of available open space.