Growing a Sustainable City?: The Question of Urban Agriculture

"This book is a solid contribution to this growing field and will be informative to those interested in the topic of urban farming, especially anybody working in public policy who intends to implement programs in their own city."

John Harner, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, The AAG Review of Books, Spring '19

"The book supports the following idea: urban agriculture is a city planning challenge for land use and who gets to access it. A key take-away is that urban agriculture is not merely a contemporary food systems trend, but an under-developed mechanism for city sustainability. The authors conclude with helpful suggestions on how city planners and organizers might better integrate urban food production into social and environmental sustainability city planning."

Alana N. Chriest, Ohio State University, Agriculture and Human Values no 36

"Growing a Sustainable City is unique in the way it balances multiple perspectives at play in shaping urban agricultural policy in Philadelphia. Christina Rosan and Hamil Pearsall’s timely and refreshing book doesn’t shy away from the race and class issues surrounding urban agriculture and it has the potential to influence ongoing planning, policy, and advocacy efforts in cities worldwide."

Laura Lawson, Dean of Agriculture and Urban Programs, Rutgers University

"This book offers a new perspective by looking at sustainable policies as well as emerging scholarship on alternative food movements. The authors do not blindly promote urban agriculture, but rather pose questions about how urban agriculture should be promoted and what kinds of policies may be most effective in achieving these goals."

Yuki Kato, Department of Sociology, Georgetown University