City of Forests, City of Farms

K. Campbell Lindsay

Description

City of Forests, City of Farms is a history of recent urban forestry and agriculture policy and programs in New York City. Centered on the 2007 initiative PlaNYC, this account tracks the development of policies that increased sustainability efforts in the city and dedicated more than $400 million dollars to trees via the MillionTreesNYC campaign. Lindsay K. Campbell uses PlaNYC to consider how and why nature is constructed in New York City. Campbell regards sustainability planning as a process that unfolds through the strategic interplay of actors, the deployment of different narrative frames, and the mobilizing and manipulation of the physical environment, which affects nonhuman animals and plants as well as the city's residents.Campbell zeroes in on a core omission in PlaNYC's original conception and funding: Despite NYC having a long tradition of community gardening, particularly since the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, the plan contained no mention of community gardens or urban farms. Campbell charts the change of course that resulted from burgeoning public interest in urban agriculture and local food systems. She shows how civic groups and elected officials crafted a series of visions and plans for local food systems that informed the 2011 update to PlaNYC. City of Forests, City of Farms is a valuable tool that allows us to understand and disentangle the political decisions, popular narratives, and physical practices that shape city greening in New York City and elsewhere.

Sujets

• Sustainability
• History of the Americas

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501714795
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

Extrait

CITYOFFORESTS, CITY OF FARMS

CITYOF FORESTS, CITYOF FARMS SustainabilityPlanningfor New York City’s Nature

LindsayK.Campbell

CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESSITHACA AND LONDON

TheU.S.DepartmentofAgriculture,ForestServiceprovidedfundingsupport for this research.

Copyright © 2017 by Cornell University

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First published 2017 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Campbell, Lindsay K. Title:Cityofforests,cityoffarms:sustainabilityplanningforNewYorkCity’s nature / Lindsay K. Campbell. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017016806 (print) | LCCN 2017020164 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501714702 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501714795 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501707506 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Human ecology—New York (State)—New York. | Urban forestry—New York (State)—New York. | Urban agriculture—New York (State)— New York. | Urban ecology (Biology)—New York (State)—New York. | Green movement—New York (State)—New York. | Sustainable living—New York (State)—New York. | Land use, Urban—Environmental aspects—New York (State)—New York. | City planning—Environmental aspects—New York (State)—New York. | Environmental policy—New York (State)—New York. Classification: LCC GF504.N7 (ebook) | LCC GF504.N7 C36 2017 (print) | DDC 333.77—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017016806 CornellUniversityPressstrivestouseenvironmentallyresponsiblesuppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetablebased, lowVOC inks and acidfree papers that are recycled, totally chlorinefree, or partly composed of nonwood fibers. For further information, visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

Cover photo: (front) United Community Centers Farm, East New York, Borough of Brooklyn, 2011. Copyright Rob Stephenson. Used by permission. (back) Tree planting in New York City. Photograph by Danny Avila and copyright NYC Parks. Used by permission.

For all the people and plants in New York City, butespeciallyRicardo. AndinmemoryofPop’Z,myfavoritegardener.

Contents

ListofTables,Maps,andIllustrations PrefaceandAcknowledgments ListofAcronymsandAbbreviations

Introduction: Juxtaposing Urban Forestry and Agriculture in the PlaNYC Era

1.  Greening New York City: Political Economic Context and Environmental Stewardship from 1970 to the Present 2. Creating PlaNYC: The Politics of Urban Sustainability Planning 3. City of Forests: Planting One Million Trees 4. Beyond Planting: Creating an Urban Forestry Movement 5. Growing in the City: From Community Gardening to Urban Agriculture 6. City of Farms: Cultivating Urban Agriculture through Food Policy Visions and Plans 7. Constructing the “Greener, Greater” City: Politics, Discourses, and Material Practices 8. City as Ecosystem: Changing Form, Function, and Governance of Urban SocioNature

Epilogue:FromBloombergtodeBlasioandBeyond

Appendices:Methods,Data,andProtocolsavailable online at: http://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/nyc/pubs/resources/ CityofForestsCityofFarmsAppendices.pdf Notes References Index

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Tables,Maps,andIllustrations

Tables 1.1.  Population of New York City (1970–2010) by race and ethnicity 1.2.  New York City civic environmental stewardship broker organizations as of 2007 2.1.  Ten goals of PlaNYC(2007 edition) 2.2.  Treerelated initiatives in PlaNYC(2007 edition) 3.1.  DPR’s PlaNYC Funding, with MillionTreesNYC related capital funding in bold 3.2.  Changes to planting and maintenance practices of street trees in the PROW 3.3.  Changes to planting and maintenance practices in natural area forested parks 6.1.  Goals, initiatives, and proposals related to urban and regional agricultural production inFoodNYC, FoodWorksCY20.,andPlaN

Maps 1.1.  Map of New York City’s parks and community gardens 1.2.  Map of civic stewardship groups in New York City

Figures 1.1.  Urban forestry network diagram with DPR divisions disaggregated 1.2.  Urban forestry network diagram with DPR divisions combined 1.3.  Urban agriculture network diagram 3.1.  Leaders of the MillionTreesNYC campaign at the 2007 public launch

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