Thesis
The case for urban agriculture: regenerative, human-scale food production systems in urban landscapes
Washington State University
Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
2010
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/100723
Abstract
Urban agriculture has a long history and has seen a great resurgence in the past few years. For the first time since Eleanor Roosevelt planted her victory garden during World War Two, the White House lawn is sporting a garden (Burros n. pag.). School gardens and prison gardens are becoming more common and community garden plots have wait lists of would be gardeners. The American Community Garden Association web site lists among the many benefits of community gardening: community development and social interaction, increased self-reliance, reduction of family food budgets, production of nutritious food, beautification of neighborhoods and creation of opportunity for exercise, recreation, therapy and education. Any one of these benefits would be an asset to a landscape architect's urban design project, but how does a landscape architect, trained to design mainstream commercial projects using ornamental plants, introduce elements of food-production systems into their designs successfully? This thesis examines how elements of urban agriculture can influence landscape architecture designs for the betterment of the practice. Through site visits to longstanding public school and prison gardens I analyze aspects of grassroots, humaniscale food production projects that can be put to use in landscape architecture design.
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Details
- Title
- The case for urban agriculture
- Creators
- Tammy L. Parker
- Contributors
- Jolie B. Kaytes (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Horticulture, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525104301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis