Presentation
Urban Gleaning: Promoting Food Security Through Opportunistic Design Strategies
Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning
(2016)
Abstract
In an effort to improve food literacy, food security, and food access, concerned
citizens have, over the course of the past several decades, developed new types
of landscapes for urban gleaning. While these design interventions vary in
scope and approach, they share a common fundamental desire: to invite others
to join in a harvest picked from the city. This paper addresses the broad context
of urban gleaning through the specific lens of two case studies in
Northampton, MA, and suggests that these types of nontraditional agricultural
sites have the potential to radically restructure cityscapes. Moreover, while
urban gleaning efforts rarely engage the design and planning disciplines in a
formal way, this paper argues that future urban agriculture efforts could benefit
from a more integrated design approach. In so doing, new types of food
provisioning systems, designed to fit into urban wastescapes, might offer even
more productive returns for the community engagement, food culture, and
food security of the future city.
Keywords
- Community Engagement,
- Food Security,
- Wastespace,
- Urban Gleaning
Disciplines
Publication Date
2016
Location
Budapest, Hungary
Citation Information
Clouse, Carey and Brause, Caryn (2016) "Urban Gleaning: Promoting Food Security Through Opportunistic Design Strategies," Proceedings of the Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning: Vol. 5 : Iss. 2, Article 52.