Farming on the Fringe: Peri-Urban Agriculture, Cultural Diversity and Sustainability in Sydney

ISBN-13: 9783319322339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 197 str.

Sarah James

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This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney's sprawling urban jungle.

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  CHAPTER 1: SYDNEY’S ‘INVISIBLE’ FARMERS

Sydney’s Market Gardens: A Cultural Economy of Farming on the Fringe

The History of CALD market gardeners in Sydney

Re-visioning the City from the Edge: Cultural Complexity and Urban Agriculture

Speaking from the Fringe

Recognition: Determining the efficacy and relevance of prevailing preservation discourses

Into the field

Chapter Outlines

References

CHAPTER 2:  GROWING SYDNEY

A Vision for a Global City

Growth as Development

Agriculture and Cultural Complexity

From Colonial to Global City

Environmental and Cultural Limits to Growth

Sprawl: The Messiness of the West

History of ‘Growth’ in Sydney’s Plans

The 2005 Metropolitan Strategy

Responses to the 2005 Strategy

Green Zones

A Plan for Growing Sydney (2015)

ConclusionReferences

CHAPTER 3:  LOCAL FOOD, URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Vortex cities

The turn to local food

Planning for PUA

Protecting peri-urban agriculture

Farmland preservation

Countryside preservation

Voices from the field: the view of the grower

Urban agriculture and cultural diversity

Sydney’s CALD growers

Conclusion

References

CHAPTER 4:  DIVERSITY-BLIND PLANNING

Diversity and Planning

Participation in decision-making

Consultation for the 2005 Metropolitan Strategy

Public Consultations

Perspectives of CALD growers

Perspective of Government Planners

Towards an Intercultural Perspective

Conclusion

References

CHAPTER 5:  THE THINGS WE WANT TO KEEP: MIGRANT MARKET GARDENS AS SYDNEY’S HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Protecting Farms as Heritage?

A Historic Farming Landscape

Bringelly Exhibition

Other Exhibitions on Sydney’s Agriculture Heritage

Migrant Heritage in Australia

Migrant Gardens as Heritage

Heritage Listed Market Gardens in Sydney

Comparison to Other Heritages

Growers’ Perspectives

A Translocated Tradition

A Practice to Protect?

Type of Crops Grown

Family Tradition

Connection to Land

Knowledge

Migration and Settlement

Farming as Migrant Employment

Providing for the Next Generation

A Means of Support

A Question of Value

Migrant Market Gardens as Heritage?

Conclusion

References

CHAPTER 6:  SUSTAINING SYDNEY

Can we feed Sydney?

Sustainability in Sydney Metropolitan Planning

Sydney’s Forgotten Farmers

Valuing Sydney’s Agriculture: Environmentally, socially and economically

Moving Out

Owners and Lessees

Communities

Part of a sustainable Sydney

The future of Sydney farming

Rooftop and Vertical farming: Alternative and high-tech options for production

Green zones or green belts

Purchase or transfer of development rights

Agri-Business Park

Economic Viability: a whole of food system perspective

Help wanted

Conclusion

References

CHAPTER 7:  MULTIPLE URBANISMS

Blurb

This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney’s sprawling urban jungle. Providing fresh food for the city and local employment, these culturally and linguistically diverse farmers contribute not only to Sydney’s globalizing demographic and cultural fabric, but also play a critical role in the city’s environmental sustainability. In the battle for urban space housing development threatens to turn these farmlands into sprawling suburbia. In thinking from and with the urban ‘fringe’, this book moves beyond the housing versus farming debate to present a vision for urban growth that is dynamic and alive to the needs of the 21st century city. In a unique bringing together of the twin forces shaping contemporary urbanism - environmental change and global population flows - the voices from the fringe demand to be heard in the debate on future urban food sustainability.