City Of Forests, City Of Farms: Sustainability Planning For New York City's Nature Project Muse Upcc Books

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. Introduction : Juxtaposing Urban Forestry And Agriculture In The Planyc Era -- Greening New York City : Political Economic Context And Environmental Stewardship From 1970-present -- Creating Planyc : The Politics Of Urban Sustainability Planning -- City Of Forests : Planting One Million Trees -- Beyond Planting : Creating An Urban Forestry Movement -- Growing In The City : From Community Gardening To Urban Agriculture -- City Of Farms : Cultivating Urban Agriculture Through Food Policy Visions And Plans -- Constructing The Greener, Greater City : Politics, Discourses, And Material Practices -- City As Ecosystem : Changing Form, Function, And Governance Of Urban Socio-nature -- Epilogue : From Bloomberg To De Blasio And Beyond. Lindsay K. Campbell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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.

"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."--Jaquette This book begins with the question of why PlaNYC2030—New York City’s municipal, long-term sustainability plan, launched during the Mayor Michael Bloomberg administration—had a robust urban forestry agenda, but lacked an urban agriculture agenda. PlaNYC launched the MillionTreesNYC campaign, investing over $400 million in city funds and leveraging a public-private partnership to plant one million trees citywide. Meanwhile, despite NYC having a long tradition of community gardening and burgeoning interest in local food systems, the plan contained no mention of community gardens or urban farms. In contrasting the top-down, centralized investment in the urban forest with the dispersed and decentralized social movement around urban agriculture, the book describes the ways in which political, discursive, and material processes intertwine to construct nature in the city. Urban greening unfolds through the strategic interplay of actors, the deployment of different narrative frames, and the mobilizing and manipulation of the physical environment—including other living, non-human entities. Understanding __how and why__ the sustainability agenda is set and implemented provides crucial lessons to scholars, policymakers, and activists alike as they engage in the greening of cities.