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Garden ecology. --- Landscape ecology. --- Urban gardening --- Open spaces. --- Social aspects.
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Parkways --- Greenways --- Design and construction --- Linear parks --- Open spaces --- Express highways --- Park districts --- Parks --- Roads
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Parkways --- Greenways --- Design and construction --- Linear parks --- Open spaces --- Express highways --- Park districts --- Parks --- Roads
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Parkways --- Greenways --- Design and construction --- Linear parks --- Open spaces --- Express highways --- Park districts --- Parks --- Roads
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Parkways --- Greenways --- Design and construction --- Linear parks --- Open spaces --- Express highways --- Park districts --- Parks --- Roads
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In an insightful new study, Donald Freeman examines the development and significance of urban agriculture in Nairobi, Kenya, overturning a number of common assumptions about the inhabitants and economy of African cities. He addresses the ways in which urban agriculture fits into a broader picture of Kenyan social and economic development and discusses the implications of his findings for development theory in general. Freeman begins by exploring the context of urban agriculture, tracing its development in the colonial and post-colonial city. He then provides a detailed description of urban farmers, their land use practices, and their crops. Freeman gathered this rich body of information through on-site surveys of 618 small-scale cultivators in ten different parts of Nairobi. He concludes by considering the implications of the burgeoning practice of urban agriculture for the cultivators themselves, for the city, and for the developing economy of Kenya. Although the empirical work is focused on Nairobi and its informal sector, the scope and implications of the study are broader and the conclusions relevant to other parts of the Third World. "Urban" productive activities in the Third World, Freeman suggests, need redefining to take account of basic food production in the city and its interrelationships with other informal and formal sectors. A City of Farmers will interest not only economic geographers and students and scholars of development studies and African history but anyone concerned with economic and social conditions in the Third World.
Urban agriculture --- Open spaces --- Urban farming --- Agriculture --- Land use, Urban --- Land use
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Investigates how various institutions for green landscapes in metropolitan areas work, which problems hamper them, and how these institutions can be improved. This title formulates the following themes such as: landscape and institutional developments, the market or government dilemma, and the network or hierarchy dilemma.
City planning --- Open spaces --- Greenbelts --- Greenways --- Linear parks --- Green belts --- Land use --- Built environment
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Environmental planning --- comprehensive plans [reports] --- greens [open spaces] --- urban parks --- public spaces
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Sociology of environment --- Environmental planning --- Architecture --- urban sociology --- skyscrapers --- open spaces --- Chicago
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