AgriCultura : Urban Agriculture and the Heritage Potential of Agrarian Landscape

This book explains how cultural heritage can be a tool for enhancing urban agriculture and improving landscape and life quality. It cuts across the existing literature and fills the gaps between urban agriculture, considered as a food, social and environmental opportunity and cultural heritage, considered as resource. It focuses the role of the countryside for urban areas, in the history of the city and today. Its attention is on the quality for all areas, both outstanding, ordinary and degraded, as well as large, little or fragmented (European landscape convention 2000). It considers agricultural landscape as a system of tangible and intangible heritage components and relationships, to be retained, enhanced and transmit, in a process of inevitable but appropriate dynamic conservation and management over time (ICOMOS-IFLA Principles 2017). This book can benefit the collaboration among local players – such as farmers, citizens, associations, public institutions, stakeholders – in conserving and enhancing agrarian heritage and reinforcing the identity of places and people. It can strengthen collective action and generate positive effects on good large and local -scale management. The first part has a methodological character in order to enlighten the integrated approach between cultural heritage and urban agriculture. The second part exemplifies cases where the heritage has been recognised but not yet translated into concrete action. The third Part discloses ongoing process of co-construction, where policies have recognized the cultural, environmental and social meaning of urban agriculture as heritage. This book aims to reach scholars, local administrations, professionals, farmers and citizens. It involves many authors, many of whom are directly engaged with action-research in safeguarding and implementing the mutual interaction between urban agriculture activities and agrarian heritage. Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Agricultural and Urban Policies in Europe: The Co-construction of Periurban Agricultural Landscape. Experiences, Problems, Perspectives (André Fleury)....Pages 3-16 Urban Agriculture as Heritage: Methodological Issues and Perspectives (Lionella Scazzosi)....Pages 17-44 Engagement, Participation, and Governance of the Urban Agricultural Heritage (Paola Branduini)....Pages 45-62 Front Matter ....Pages 63-63 Urban Agriculture and Territorial Heritage: Keys to Resiliency (María-José Prados, Jesús Santiago Ramos)....Pages 65-78 Urban Agriculture and Landscape in Mexico City Between History and Innovation (Saúl Alcántara Onofre)....Pages 79-96 Tangible and Intangible Heritage in Urban Agriculture: Australia Experiences (Jane Lennon)....Pages 97-114 Sewage Farms in Pierrelaye: Periurban Agriculture Multifunctionality Model (Roland Vidal)....Pages 115-131 Urban Agriculture: What About Domestic Gardens? (Hubert Gulinck, Valerie Dewaelheyns, Frederik Lerouge)....Pages 133-144 Is Urban Agriculture an Opportunity to Preserve Landscape Systems? Suggestions from England (Raffaella Laviscio)....Pages 145-162 Front Matter ....Pages 163-163 Agriculture and the City of Geneva: The End of a Love Affair? (Joëlle Salomon Cavin, Nelly Niwa)....Pages 165-173 Recognizing the Multifunctional Nature of Agriculture: Stakes and Challenges in Montréal and Île Bizard (Sabine Courcier, Gérald Domon)....Pages 175-187 AgroCulture in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona: Diverse Planning and Management Tools for Different Landscapes (Ana Zazo-Moratalla, Valeri`Paül, Sònia Callau-Berenguer, Josep Montasell-Dorda)....Pages 189-203 Cultivating the Cologne Green Belt: The Belvedere Agricultural Park (Axel Timpe)....Pages 205-224 La Vega de Granada: The Defence of a Paradigmatic Agrarian Heritage Space by Local Citizens (José Castillo Ruiz, Alberto Matarán Ruiz)....Pages 225-243 AgriCulture in Milan. The Mutual Benefit Between Urban Agriculture and Cultural Heritage (Paola Branduini, Raffaella Laviscio, Lionella Scazzosi)....Pages 245-261