[P2P-F] does urban farming make sense?

Tue Apr 19 10:20:52 CEST 2011

there is a difference between a city farm and a farm city

a city farm is an island of agrarianism in a sea of urbanity
a farm city is a urban ecological environment with mixed agroforestry

making pure cities or pure farms leads is machine thinking which leads to
monoculture decay

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> this is from our companion list on urbanism, and seems to me, a too
> simplistic take on the issue,
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> 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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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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,
> moscow 1930
> To: "p2p-urbanism-world-atlas at googlegroups.com" <
> p2p-urbanism-world-atlas at googlegroups.com>
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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.
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> 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.
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> Jan
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