Metropolitan Food Systems
European Trajectories in Planning, Governance and Landscape Management
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Beschreibung
Focusing on Milan, Barcelona, and the Ruhr area, this book reveals how three leading European city‑regions are reshaping the relationship between planning, agriculture, and sustainability. Bringing together fieldwork, interviews, and comparative analysis, it highlights the often‑overlooked power of peri‑urban agriculture and the complex dynamics that underpin truly local food systems. Farmland preservation emerges as only one piece of a much larger puzzle—one that spans governance, policy design, farm business models, land tenure, biodiversity, and resource management.
Through vivid case studies, the book uncovers the tools, strategies, and actors driving innovation on the ground, as well as the structural obstacles that still stand in the way. The result is a compelling call for a more integrated, multi-scalar approach to planning—one capable of supporting resilient local food systems and sustainable peri‑urban landscapes.
Antonio José Salvador is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) at Politecnico di Milano.
Focusing on Milan, Barcelona, and the Ruhr area, this book reveals how three leading European city‑regions are reshaping the relationship between planning, agriculture, and sustainability. Bringing together fieldwork, interviews, and comparative analysis, it highlights the often‑overlooked power of peri‑urban agriculture and the complex dynamics that underpin truly local food systems. Farmland preservation emerges as only one piece of a much larger puzzle—one that spans governance, policy design, farm business models, land tenure, biodiversity, and resource management.
Through vivid case studies, the book uncovers the tools, strategies, and actors driving innovation on the ground, as well as the structural obstacles that still stand in the way. The result is a compelling call for a more integrated, multi-scalar approach to planning—one capable of supporting resilient local food systems and sustainable peri‑urban landscapes.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the transition in food systems and sustainable agriculture in Europe Defines the concept of local (metropolitan) food systems by acknowledging a more complex set of relationships Calls for the integration of various agendas and provides a practical framework supported by tangible case studies
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Antonio José Salvador
Themen in »Metropolitan Food Systems«
agrosocial urbanism sustainable agriculture socio-ecological transition metropolitan planning systems urban planning territorial governance sustainable urban futures agrarian urbanism food planning food governance urban agriculture