Browsing by Subject "Urban Agriculture"

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    Comprehensive Green Infrastructure Planning: The Way Forward for Ecological and Environmental Justice
    (2012-05-30) Stewart, Paula
    Green infrastructure planning is an alternative concept that takes a long-term strategic and holistic approach to urban and regional development. It focuses on limiting sprawl, preserving or reclaiming natural areas of high environmental significance, and reconnecting fragmented landscapes. It includes highly dense, highly energy and resource efficient, racially and socially mixed built environments with urban agriculture as a necessary component. It balances the needs of humans and nature, economic interests, and ecosystem health while furthering environmental justice for all.
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    Urban Agriculture And Resiliency Of At-Risk Communities: Evaluation And Implementation At The University Of Minnesota Golf Course
    (2020-08) Lampe, Mitchell
    Recent light on infrastructural shortcomings during the COVID-19 pandemic and civil uprising against racial disparity has shown signs of a nationwide paradigm shift in more than just politics. Cities, and more specifically, Minneapolis, grew out of a created dichotomy between material infrastructure and the sociocultural realm (Bishop et al., 121). Outdated urban networks of both the physical and immaterial in urban environments have reached a tipping point where their supposed designers and regulators of operation are being opposed for the lack of common good in mind. This study examines what the creation and use of sustainable urban agriculture at the University of Minnesota Golf Course would propagate as means of infrastructural change both physically and socially for the oppressed and exploited communities of Minneapolis, and more specifically Lauderdale. Recent precedents of urban infrastructural failures as well as successful urban agricultural systems and modes of connectivity will be analyzed to support the hypothesis that urban agriculture can be a means to increase resiliency of at-risk urban communities and the morphing of a new paradigm in city infrastructure.