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Farming on the fringe : peri-urban agriculture, cultural diversity and sustainability in Sydney / Sa...

Farming on the fringe : peri-urban agriculture, cultura...

Farming on the fringe : peri-urban agriculture, cultural diversity and sustainability in Sydney / Sa...

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Farming on the fringe : peri-urban agriculture, cultural diversity and sustainability in Sydney / Sarah James.

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Full title

Farming on the fringe : peri-urban agriculture, cultural diversity and sustainability in Sydney / Sarah James.

Publisher

Switzerland Springer Verlag, 2016.

Call Numbers

H 2016/2984

Record Identifier

74VKVd62qNlM

MMS ID

991023998718402626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

xi, 197 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 25 cm.

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Acknowledgments: Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Sydney's 'Invisible' Farmers -- 1.1 Sydney's Market Gardens: A Cultural Economy of Farming on the Fringe -- 1.2 Protecting Sydney's Market Gardens -- 1.2.1 The History of CALD Market Gardeners in Sydney -- 1.3 Re-Visioning the City from the Ed...

2.2 Growth as Development -- 2.2.1 Agriculture and Cultural Complexity -- 2.2.2 From Colonial to Global City -- 2.2.3 Environmental and Cultural Limits to Growth -- 2.2.4 Sprawl: The Messiness of the West -- 2.3 History of 'Growth' in Sydney's Plans -- 2.3.1 The 2005 Metropolitan Strategy -- 2.3.2 R...

3.2.1 Farmland Preservation -- 3.2.2 Countryside Preservation -- 3.2.3 Voices from the Field: The View of the Grower -- 3.3 Urban Agriculture and Cultural Diversity -- 3.3.1 Sydney's CALD Growers -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Diversity-Blind Planning -- 4.1 Diversity and Planning --...

Chapter 5: The Things We Want to Keep: Migrant Market Gardens as Sydney's History and Heritage -- 5.1 Protecting Farms as Heritage? -- 5.1.1 A Historic Farming Landscape -- 5.1.2 Bringelly Exhibition -- 5.1.3 Other Exhibitions on Sydney's Agriculture Heritage -- 5.2 Migrant Heritage in Australia --...

5.5 Migration and Settlement -- 5.5.1 Farming as Migrant Employment -- 5.5.2 Providing for the Next Generation -- 5.5.3 A Means of Support -- 5.6 A Question of Value -- 5.7 Migrant Market Gardens as Heritage? -- 5.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Sustaining Sydney -- 6.1 Can We Feed Sydney?...

Chapter 7: Multiple Urbanisms -- 7.1 Growth as Development -- 7.2 Land as Livelihood -- 7.3 Heritage and Sustainability -- 7.4 Productive Diversity -- 7.5 Key Findings of the Book -- 7.6 Final Word -- References.

Publication information

Publisher

Switzerland Springer Verlag, 2016.

Date Published

2016.

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Full title

Farming on the fringe : peri-urban agriculture, cultural diversity and sustainability in Sydney / Sarah James.

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Notes

General note

Urban Agriculture, 2197-1730

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Call Numbers

H 2016/2984

Record Identifier

74VKVd62qNlM

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVd62qNlM

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ISBN

3319322338

9783319322339

DDC

630.9173/2

MMS ID

991023998718402626

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