Putting Paradise in the Parking Lot: Using Zoning to Promote Urban Agriculture

Urban agriculture and place-making: Narratives about place and space in Ghent, Brno and Bristol

“…To bolster efforts to find a consensual solution to the tensions linked to UA, we add our voices to others (Clifford and King, 1996;Sonnino, 2014;Tornaghi, 2016) in calling for a more equitable, temporal and iterative approach to urban development and place-making which is less (mono-)functionalist. Apart from creating physical spaces to develop urban agriculture through zoning (see Huang and Drescher, 2015;Maloney, 2013;McClintock et al, 2012), the institutionalisation of UA in urban planning strategies should also give thought to the delegation of autonomous governance over spaces suitable for UA. Such a call to institutionalise processes of place-making, however, is not new but yet another example of how collaborative placemaking could happen.…”

“…Food production is often located "within the cracks of the system", in marginal urban spaces (Tornaghi, 2016, p. 2) with a temporary character. As a result, UA initiatives are vulnerable to changes in planning and other policies (Maloney, 2013;Spilkova and Vagner, 2016).…”

“…Spatial issues in urban agriculture have been approached from a broader perspective by geographers and spatial planners, addressing structural questions of land use, governance and planning (see Eizenberg, 2012;La Rosa et al, 2014;Maloney, 2013;Schmelzkopf, 2002;Smith et al, 2013;Spilkova and Vagner, 2016;Tornaghi, 2014). As early as 2002, Schmelzkopf examined a conflict over a community garden in New York.…”