City of Forests, City of Farms is a history of recent urban forestry and agriculture policy and programs in New York City. Centered on the 2007 initiative Pla NYC, this account tracks the development of policies that increased sustainability efforts in the city and dedicated more than $400 million dollars to trees via the Million Trees NYC campaign. Lindsay K. Campbell uses Pla NYC to consider how and why nature is constructed in New York City. Campbell regards sustainability planning as a process that unfolds through the strategic interplay of actors, the deployment of different narrative frames, and the mobilizing and manipulation of the physical environment, which affects nonhuman animals and plants as well as the city’s residents.
Campbell zeroes in on a core omission in Pla NYC’s original conception and funding: Despite NYC having a long tradition of community gardening, particularly since the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, the plan contained no mention of community gardens or urban farms. Campbell charts the change of course that resulted from burgeoning public interest in urban agriculture and local food systems. She shows how civic groups and elected officials crafted a series of visions and plans for local food systems that informed the 2011 update to Pla NYC. City of Forests, City of Farms is a valuable tool that allows us to understand and disentangle the political decisions, popular narratives, and physical practices that shape city greening in New York City and elsewhere.
Table of Content
List of Tables, Maps, and Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Greening New York City
2. Creating Pla NYC
3. City of Forests
4. Beyond Planting
5. Growing in the City
6. City of Farms
7. Constructing the ‘Greener, Greater’ City
8. City as Ecosystems
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Lindsay K. Campbell is a Research Social Scientist with the USDA Forest Service. She is based at the New York City Urban Field Station, which is a partnership between the Forest Service and the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation. She is coeditor of Restorative Commons.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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