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Author Gorgolewski, Mark.

Title Carrot city : creating places for urban agriculture / Mark Gorgolewski, June Komisar, and Joe Nasr.

Publication Info. New York : Monacelli Press, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  635 G667C    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Imagining the productive city. Middlesbrough Urban Farming Project, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom ; Ravine City, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Gardiner Urban Agriculture Hub, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Making the edible landscape, Rosario, Argentina ; Greenhouse Village, The Netherlands ; Southeast False Creek, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ; Parc Downsview Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Prairie Crossing, Grayslake, Illinois ; Agroparks, The Netherlands ; Pig City, The Netherlands -- Building community and knowledge. Troy Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin ; Inuvik Community Greenhouse, Inuvik, Northern Territories, Canada ; Curtis "80 Cent" Jackson Community Garden, Queens, New York ; Artscape Wychwood Barns, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Niagara Community Food Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; The Science Barge, Yonkers, New York ; The Edible Schoolyard, Brooklyn, New York ; The Edible Campus, Montreal, Quebec, Canada ; Wood Street Urban Farm, Chicago, Illinois ; Leadenhall Street City Farm, London, United Kingdom ; Public Farm One, Long Island City, New York -- Redesigning the home. Mole Hill Community Housing, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ; City Farmer, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ; Harvest Green, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ; Maison Productive House, Montreal, Quebec, Canada ; Edible Estates regional prototype gardens, Various locations in the United States and England ; Edible Terrace, Bolton, United Kingdom ; Agro-housing, Wuhan, China ; Center for Urban Agriculture, Seattle, Washington ; 60 Richmond Street East Housing Co-operative, Toronto, Ontario, Canada -- Producing on the roof. New York City rooftop gardens, Brooklyn, New York ; New York City rooftop greenhouses, New York, New York ; Uncommon Ground Restaurant, Chicago, Illinois ; Carrot Green Roof, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; New York rooftop school gardens, New York, New York ; Gary Comer Youth Center, Chicago, Illinois ; BronXscape Louis Nine House, Bronx, New York ; Fairmont Hotel gardens, Vancouver, British Columbia and Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Brownstone roof garden, Brooklyn, New York -- Components for growing. Composters ; Livestock shelters ; Hydroponic and aquaponic systems ; Greenhouse technologies ; Raised beds ; Soft planters ; Rigid containers ; Hanging planters.
Summary "Carrot City is a collection of ideas, both conceptual and realized, that use design to enable sustainable food production, helping to reintroduce urban agriculture to our cities. Focusing on the need and desire to grow food within the city to supply food from local sources, the contributions of architecture, landscape design, and urban design are explored.
Forty projects demonstrate how the production of food can lead to visually striking and artistically interesting solutions that create community and provide inhabitants with immediate access to fresh, healthful ingredients. The authors show how city planning and architecture that considers food production as a fundamental requirement of design result in more community gardens, greenhouses tucked under raised highways, edible landscapes in front yards in place of resource-devouring lawns, living walls that bring greenery into dense city blocks, and productive green roofs on schools and large apartment blocks that can be tended and harvested by students and residents alike."--Pub. desc.
Subject Urban agriculture.
Urban agriculture. (OCoLC)fst01162356
Landschaftsgestaltung. (DE-588)4034350-9
Nutzpflanzen. (DE-588)4042838-2
Stadtgrün. (DE-588)4182743-0
Städtische Landwirtschaft. (DE-588)4653294-8
Landschaftsgestaltung. (DE-588c)4034350-9
Nutzpflanzen. (DE-588c)4042838-2
Stadtgrün. (DE-588c)4182743-0
Added Author Komisar, June.
Nasr, Joe.
ISBN 9781580933117 (hardcover)
1580933114 (hardcover)
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