[P2P-F] does urban farming make sense?

[Michel Bauwens]

this is from our companion list on urbanism, and seems to me, a too
simplistic take on the issue,

what kind of arguments can be brought to bear on such a hostile attitude to
urban farming?

my own intuitive sense  is that, though certainly by no means a panacea,
regrowing food is part of regreening of the city, sustainability, autonomous
production, community formation, and the like, and therefore, overall, a
positive development, certain in the context of possible future food
shortages,

Michel

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From: Jan Wiklund <jan.wiklund at srf.nu>
Date: Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:00 PM
Subject: SV: [P2P-URBANISM WA] a debate on country-city (dis)urbanism,
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 And for my part, I don’t se the point of all this talk about food
production in towns. The point of towns is to keep down the distances
between people and all the millions of activities you need in a complicated
economy. Preferably, people should be able to communicate mostly by foot.
Bulky kinds of production should be kept out of towns. Von Thünen’s scheme,
constructed before the fossil age, still holds good. People in the middle,
gardening just outside, and even more spacy activities even farther away.



Keeping spaces in towns to grow vegetables on means longer distances, means
more fuel. We can’t afford that, except, of course, in small towns where the
distances are small anyhow.



Jan
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