I think a truly great source for that is from the Toronto Food Policy Council's Wayne Roberts, "The Way to a City's Heart is Through its Stomach: Putting Food Security on the Urban Planning Menu." While not specifically aimed at encouraging community gardens, at least 2 of the recommendations at the end focus on urban agriculture. Plus it's well-written and funny. To access it, go to http://www.toronto.ca/health/tfpc_index.htm, and keep scrolling down until you come to the "15 discussion papers" clickable line. I saw that there's also a paper called "Feeding the City from the Back 40" but haven't read it.
I imagine you've visited the ACGA web site since you're on this list. The American Planning Association (www.planning.org) has had a lot of stuff on food systems since Jerome Kaufman was their conference keynote in 2003. In 2005 (I believe) they featured an entire track on food systems at their conference. If you go to the site and search for "food" a lot comes up but I haven't read much of it -- it looks like a ton of info. I also think their December 2004 "Planning" Magazine was devoted to food security, but while you can access the current issue on-line you seem to have to subscribe to get back issues. The APA has a draft white paper on the subject of food and planning, which you can get from their web site. Jerome Kaufman, along with Kami Pothukuchi, wrote another ground-breaking classic on urban planning and food security, called "Putting the Food System on the Urban Agenda: The Role of Municipal Institutions in Food Security Planning," which I read from a photocopy. It was in the periodical Agriculture and Human Values but I don't know if you can get that on-line. It does come up if you Google "Urban Agenda Pothukuchi," along with some other interesting things, at least one of which is specifically about urban ag, but you seem to have to pay for it. Kaufman also wrote "Farming Inside Cities" with Martin Bailkey, which talks specifically about entrepreneurial activity thru urban agriculture, and can be accessed at http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=95. And finally, Bailkey is the chair of the Urban Ag Committee of the Community Food Security Coalition, which has produced several related publications. Their address is www.foodsecurity.org and after clicking on committees at the bottom, it's called North American Initiative on Urban Agriculture. In Canada you have a similar organization starting up, Food Secure Canada, but I'm not sure how far they are with their web site, etc. Good luck! Cynthia Price Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council On 12/7/06, Catherine Vandermeulen <catherine.vandermeulen at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I will be starting my phD on community gardens, food security and urban > planning next fall. > Could anyone recommend some readings? > > Thank you, > > Catherine > > -- > > Catherine Vandermeulen, Geographer > Master of Architecture candidate > Post-professional programme, Minimum-Cost Housing Option > McGill University, School of Architecture > 815 Sherbrooke Street West > MacDonald-Harrington Building, Room 201 > Montr?al, QC H3A 2K6 > E-mail: catherine.vandermeulen at mail.mcgill.ca > > > > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's > services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find > out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org >
