Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States

Samina Raja is a professor of food systems planning and the founder and director of the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab (UB Food Lab) at the University at Buffalo. An alum of UW-Madison where she had the good fortune of training with Jerry Kaufman, Raja’s scholarship, teaching, and practice focuses on the role of people-led policy and planning on promoting food and health equity. A recent project includes Growing Food Policy from the Ground Up, a federally funded project co-produced by an interdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners to build capacity of urban growers of color to shape and engage in local government planning ad policy in Minneapolis and Buffalo, NY. Raja also co-directs Growing Food Connections, a national initiative to use planning as a tool to communities’ local food systems. Marcia Caton Campbell is Executive Director of Rooted, a Madison (WI) urban agriculture and food systems organization. She is coauthor of Urban Agriculture: Growing Healthy, Sustainable Communities, PAS Report No. 563 (American Planning Association, 2011), with Kimberley Hodgson and Martin Bailkey. A Past Chair of the American Planning Association’s FOOD Division, Caton Campbell was previously a faculty member in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds an MCRP and a PhD in city planning from The Ohio State University.   Alex Judelsohn is a PhD student in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. Her scholarship explores the role of local governments in the U.S. refugee resettlement program and, broadly, her interests include how the built environment impacts health, particularly for immigrant and refugee populations. Judelsohn holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University at Buffalo.   Branden Born, Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, studies the intersection of planning processes and social justice. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin (2003) as one of Jerry Kaufman’s last PhD students. Born’s work examines community governance, land use planning, and food systems. Branden directs the Center for Livable Communities for the Department of Urban Design and Planning, and co-directs the UW's Livable City Year program, a university-wide community partnership effort that pairs university classes with city staff to complete research and design projects in service to community needs.   Alfonso Morales (PhD Sociology Northwestern) is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He is also Chair of the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. Originally from rural New Mexico with roots in family farming, there and in west Texas, he is a researcher, advocate, and practitioner/consultant on food systems and public markets. He has been invited to speak on these topics nationally and internationally. He cofounded farm2facts.org, used in farmers markets around the country, co-created the USDA Local Food Economics toolkit, among other scholarly and public-facing activities. 

Foreword.- Preface.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- II Theories and Foundations: Ethics, Urban agriculture, and Planning.- Chapter 2 Theoretical Foundations.- Chapter 3 The Food System: A Stranger to the Planning Field.- Chapter 4 From Theory to Practice: Reflections from planning practice.- Chapter 5 Urban agriculture: linking ethics and food.- Chapter 6 The Intersection of Planning, Urban Agriculture, and Food Justice.- Chapter 7 Systems thinking.- III Practical Ethics: Urban Agriculture in US Cities.- Chapter 8 Urban agriculture practice (National/Big Picture).- Chapter 9 Experience from Detroit and Cleveland.- Chapter 10 Experience from Buffalo (North east).- Chapter 11 Urban Agriculture as Public Good: Experience from Philly and Chicago.- Chapter 12 Experience from West (Las Cruces.- Chapter 13 Experience from South (Albany, GA).- Chapter 14 NYC.- Chapter 15 Experience from Michigan county.- IV Public Policy Responses to Urban Agriculture.- Chapter 16 Public PolicyResponse (National/Big Picture).- Chapter 17 Baltimore.- Chapter 18 Denver.- Chapter 19 Austin.- Chapter 20 Minneapolis.- Chapter 21 Seattle.- Chapter 22 Madison .- Chapter 23 The Relational Infrastructure of Food Systems Planning and Policy Development.- V Pedagogy of Capacity-Building through Urban Agriculture.- Chapter 24 UA as a Locus for Pedagogy.- Chapter 25 Studio-based education.- Chapter 26 Distance-based education.- Chapter 27 Community-university partnerships.- Chapter 28 Pedagogy of Urban Agriculture.- V Directions for the Future.- Chapter 29 From the outside in: European perspectives.- Chapter 30 Comparison of US-Global South.- Chapter 31 Conclusion: Ideas for the Future.- Bibliography.