Agrourbanism: Tools for Governance and Planning of Agrarian Landscape (GeoJournal Library (124))

This book provides a much needed overview of the agrourbanism topic in the context of territorial studies. It carefully looks at rural, urban, periurban farming in both professional and unprofessional capacities as one of the main sustainable forms of land use and management. This cutting edge text explores the various forms of agricultural and urban planning, as well as the main innovations that the agro-urban approach entails in terms of governance, spatial dimensions and functions. Agrourbanism provides a breadth of information and serves as a practical study of concerns facing policy and decision makers, planners and landscape managers, as well as farmers, managers of protected areas, local authorities and local action groups. As such this book is suitable as a course accompaniment to provide an overview of the complexity of agro-urban issues.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Approaching a Vision of Agrarian Urbanism: Innovative Domains, Key Definitions and Concepts (Enrico Gottero)....Pages 1-7 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 Farmland Preservation and Rural Development in Canada (Sara Epp, Wayne Caldwell, Christopher Bryant)....Pages 11-25 Managing Urban and Rural Agricultural Landscape Processes in Japan (Chika Takatori, Nobuko Kawaguchi, Hiroyuki Shimizu)....Pages 27-44 Cities Linked Through Food Trans-Boundaries: The Case of Singapore as an Agri-Pelago (Jessica Ann Diehl, Ching Sian Sia, Amanda Jennifer Chandra)....Pages 45-60 Front Matter ....Pages 61-61 Contraposition, Juxtaposition, and Transposition of the Urban and the Rural (Marco Santangelo)....Pages 63-71 Towards and Effective Implementation of Green Infrastructure in Rural Areas. Challenges and Options for a Substantial Integration with Spatial Planning (Carlo Rega)....Pages 73-85 Spatial Dimension of the CAP: Territorial Congruence, Supposed and Explicit Territoriality (Enrico Gottero, Claudia Cassatella)....Pages 87-108 Foodscape and Food Urbanism in Europe: The Urban-Rural Interface (Susan Parham)....Pages 109-129 Front Matter ....Pages 131-131 Urban Agriculture Forms in Europe (Frank Lohrberg)....Pages 133-147 Agricultural Park in Europe as Tool for Agri-Urban Policies and Design: A Critical Overview (David Fanfani)....Pages 149-169 Urban Agriculture in Urban Food Policies: Debate and Practices (Giacomo Pettenati)....Pages 171-185 Preserving and Restoring Italian Traditional Rural Landscapes. Addresses from Social Perception to Spatial Planning, Policies and Research (Bianca Maria Seardo)....Pages 187-203 Front Matter ....Pages 205-205 Towards Countryside Revival: Reducing Impacts of Urban Expansion on Land Benefits (Marco Marchetti, Matteo Vizzarri, Lorenzo Sallustio)....Pages 207-222 Ecosystems Services and Spatial Planning: Lessons Learned from the Life SAM4CP Project (Carolina Giaimo, Carlo Alberto Barbieri, Stefano Salata)....Pages 223-240 Spatial Tools to Renew the Planning Paradigm Through Metropolitan Agriculture. The Case Study of Turin (Italy) (Enrico Gottero, Claudia Cassatella)....Pages 241-258 Conclusion: Ten Good Reasons to Foster an Innovative Vision of Agrarian Urbanism in Europe (Enrico Gottero)....Pages 259-270