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Mohammed, Anisa A. "Urban Farm." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/154.
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According to Michael Pollan's article in Mother Jones Magazine, "The typical fruit or vegetable on an American's plate travels some 1,500 miles to get there, and is frequently better traveled and more worldly than its eater" (Pollan 38). The majority of citizens living in or near metropolitan centers rarely come in contact with produce pre-barcode; that is, produce still connected to the earth or not yet processed for mass distribution and consumption. This is especially the case in urban settings where land is at a premium and is valued more for residential and commercial purposes than for food production. In the case of U.S. cities, though we produce sufficiently to feed our population, the majority of produce consumed is grown outside of state lines if not entirely outside of the country. "In 2004, the U.S. exported nearly $20 million worth of lettuce - over 3/4 of it grown in California - to Mexico. The same year, it imported $20 million worth of Mexican lettuce" (Pollan 43). It is far more likely that urbanites seek references from their car mechanics and tailors than from producers of the food they consume. Locally grown and consumed food has several quality-of-life enhancing attributes, most importantly providing fresher, more nutritious produce with a known history, increased self-sufficiency with respect to food, and reduced environmental impact caused by reduced inter and intra-national transportation.
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Arvidsson, Jesper. "The Farm : A new urban condition." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-96699.
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The Farm is a speculative proposal for a self sustainable city block where as much food is produces as is consumed by it’s inhabitants. It is utilising the potential that arise when the greenery of farming is brought in to the cities in creating a new hybrid that blends with the city fabric with the aim of contributing to the areas multiplicity and vibrant life. The aim of the project has been that through architecture design; study the possibility to go from a throughput society, where everything we consume is produced outside of the community, to a society that produces what it consumes within the community in a cyclical integrated sustainable way. Can we produce what we consume with in a city and what happens when the production, which in this case is the cultivation of crops and plants, merge with the existing city fabric? What happens if the cultivation is combined with a traditional apartment program and what does it become? Can the programs thrive together in symbiosis or will one of the programs become a parasite of the other? How does the vast open spaces required for farming relate to the small intimate spaces suitable for living spaces? What is their interrelationship, how do they effect each other?
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Harr, Virginia Irene. "Urban Market and Farm for Nashville." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42585.
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This thesis is an investigation of the role of architecture in reclaiming deteriorating urban constructs, consequently restoring the placedness of a given community - in this case, East Nashville. Through careful consideration of the built environment, architecture as well as landscape architecture can transform our existence on the land and sustain a harmonious economy through the cultivation of food grown within the neighborhood. How we structure ourselves on the landscape via architecture speaks to our perception of the material world given to us.Master of Architecture
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Rigdon, Leah Rachel. "Linking rural vendors with urban public markets institutional constraints and possibilities in the evolution of urban food systems /." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Spring%20Theses/RIGDON_LEAH_25.pdf.
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Smith, Timothy Eric. "Boston Urban Farm : mending the Southwest Corridor." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70177.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.Supervised by Fernando Domeyko.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 105).
This work studies Boston's segregated nature in terms of race and class especially as this coincides with the physical form of the city. Known for its strong neighborhoods, Boston cannot escape definite boundaries between these communities: ones which are not static, but are constantly shifting. 'The city's recent redevelopment, consequently, has displaced once cohesive and viable ethnic communities, demonstrating that economic reinvestment can be directed either towards a heightened exclusivity or an integrated inclusivity. At about the time the Berlin wall was constructed, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts cleared a swath of land through Jamaica Plain and Roxbury for a proposed eight lane southwest expressway. Community activism and opposition ensured that the road was never built. For twenty-five year the land has remained virtually vacant: a gash in the landscape that formally separates Roxbury from the rest of Boston. As the wall in Berlin comes down, how might this tear in Boston be mended? In essence, how might a perceived barrier be transfigured into an active seam in a formal and social senses Such a project requires an examination of contemporary urbanism, which has contributed to the fragmented nature of American cities, and a proposal for an alternative urbanism. Part of the legacy of Boston's communities is its urban gardens which serve not only for food production;but also for bringing disparate communities together. In a city divided formally and socially, concurrently, I believe proposals for building on these perceived barriers can be most successful when they embody a physical and programmatic response. One without the other is a lifeless gesture. With these issues in mind I propose to build the Boston Urban Farm within the southwest corridor swath. 'The farm consists of residences, commercial space, farm activities such as planting and harvesting, and greenhouse constructions which may serve the many educational institutions in the area with opportunities for earth science and botanical research.
Timothy Eric Smith.
M.Arch.
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Bhat, Arjun (Arjun Devadas). "Bazaar [+] : addressing critical adjacencies in Mumbai's urban farm." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44286.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-101).
This thesis focuses on the city of Mumbai, and evolves the notion of how "critical adjacency" has been instrumental in guiding the city's urban transformations into modernity. Presently, Mumbai experiences some of the highest densities and land value Levels in the world, and the city still continues to grow. New development in the city often involves the displacement of slum dwellers to the periphery of the city, or further diffuses them into obscure interstices of the urban fabric. This thesis takes an ethical stance which calls for the reincorporation of these "slum publics" back into the fold of the central city by experimenting with manipuLations of adjacency and grain at the urban and architectural scale. The expectation of the thesis is that through tactical collisions of multiple socio-economic publics, new commercial development can serve both top down and bottom up modes of modernization.
Arjun Bhat.
S.M.
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Lundmark, Matilda. "Urban Fishfarm." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-168624.
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Storstaden är idag människans kanske mest naturliga miljö. Det är där de flesta av oss bor, lever och konsumerar en stor mängd mat. I det här projektet har jag använt mig av mat som ett redskap i min designprocess och skapat en fiskodling mitt på Skeppsbron. Jag har undersökt hur en fiskmarknad i Gamla stan skulle kunna utnyttja de befintliga resurserna på platsen och ritat en miljö där människan lever i symbios med naturen. En flexibel arkitektur som är formad utefter landskapets unika struktur och som förändras parallellt med det växlande vattenrummet. Stockholms karaktäristiska vatten kopplar ihop staden med Östersjön i öst och långt i landet i väst. För att utnyttja platsens fulla potential har marknaden ett antal flyttbara element som kan transporteras med båt mellan olika kajplatser. Dessa element består av olika typer av fiskodlingspooler som renas med hjälp av akvaponi (odling) och byggnadens biogasanläggning. Detta genererar i sin tur energi som värmer upp poolerna och förser byggnaden med elektricitet. Tillsammans utgör dessa element ett unikt landskap där människan kommer i kontakt med vattnet, djurlivet och naturligtvis maten.Investigating the the Urban Fishfarm Today, the city might be our most natural environment. This is where most of us live and consume a large amount of food. In this project, I have used food as a designtool and created a fish farm in the middle of Stockholm City. I have examined how a fish market in the old town could use the existing resources on site and designed an environment where people could live in symbiosis with nature. A flexible architecture that could grow och change in time. Stockholm water connects the city with the Baltic Sea in the east, and far into the country in the west. In order to utilize the site's full potential, the market has a number of movable elements that can be transported by sea between different quays. These elements consist of a number of fish farming pools which are purified by akvaponi (farming).
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McFadden, Caterina M. "An Urban Dwelling Place for Farmers." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36087.
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It is my intention to plan for the types of activity carried out by future inhabitants of vertical farms. Through a twenty-six storey high building,a conceptual farm with housing for the producers, situated amongst dense urban fabric of Baltimore Maryland, architecture is explored.
Utilizing form, order and space, architecture has a responsibility to construct the interalia or main theatre of human function. The architect
has a fiduciary responsible to determine the design and purpose of the stage, setting limits on the types of drama that the inhabitants play.
From spacious rural cultivator with evocative farmhouses, to confined urban neo-farmer, the stage for dwelling is extremely critical to
determine. These displaced farmers do not perform all typical city functions, but they are confined as city dwellers. For them, it remains
critical to be connected with nature and neighbor. Urban farmers need housing that enhances their quality of life. Rather than imposing
regulated apartment space for one inhabitant, the city comes forth to them in a different light, with many open neighborhood spaces for
interaction and farm activity within a merging dual structure. The dialog the two concepts (city dwelling and farming) play as they join, dwell
on a relationship of graphic tools such as rotation, scale, thickness and transparency. Further opportunity exists to investigate the act of labor(natural) and work (physical) of the urban neo-farmer, in a tall building in an effort to provide insight to their human condition. One
activity that is part of being an urban neo-farmer may be the practice of cleaning off boots and placing them in lockers before returning home
after a long work day.Master of Architecture
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Krispi, Eli M. "Go Farm, Goleta: Urban Agriculture Protection for Eastern Goleta Valley." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2011. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/575.
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This paper explores two potential land use planning strategies that can be used to preserve and enhance the economic viability of agricultural operations surrounded by suburban development in Santa Barbara County’s Eastern Goleta Valley: buffers between agriculture and other land uses, and agritourism. In the case of buffers, academic literature is examined to determine how effective buffers are at various tasks (filtering runoff, mitigating dust and wind, providing habitat, etc.) and how to construct buffers to maximize their effectiveness. Land use plans and codes from several California jurisdictions are studied to see how buffers are put to use. Academic literature is then reviewed to discover the benefits and potential drawbacks of agritourism to agricultural operations and the larger area. The zoning codes from the top five agritourism counties in California are evaluated to see how effective they are at facilitating five common agritourism uses; these best practices are then compared to the current zoning in Santa Barbara County. This paper concludes by summarizing the applicability of the literature and case studies to Eastern Goleta Valley, and proposes a new zoning designation and other policies to help maintain the urban agriculture operations. This new zoning designation includes a 30-foot minimum width for buffers and a three-tier categorization of land uses capable of promoting agritourism.
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Green, Kirsty. "Making an atlas of an urban farm : Community mapping as a pedagogical tool in urban environments." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-149810.
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Outdoor education in the UK has been growing in popularity and with it a further understanding of its benefits. Research shows that many young people still don’t access natural environments and many educators still struggle with how to provide them. This is particularly prevalent in urban environments where spatial inequality has been linked to a decline in health, well-being and personal development. Community mapping involves a community coming together to create a map of their locality and share local knowledge. This can take many forms. Sometimes it might be a traditional cartographic map while other times it may be stories, sculptures or poems. In this research I explore how community mapping can be used as a pedagogical tool, looking particularly at how it can help educators approach outdoor education in an urban environment. I take a teacher action research approach, inspired by previous art-based approaches to educational inquiry. Through doing a community mapping project with two groups of 8 to 10 year olds on an urban farm in central London I share the visable and often invisible components of our pedagogies, including children’s voices and work as well as the voice of myself and another educators, reflecting on the realities of outdoor education in an urban environment. I discover the cross curricular possibilities that such a project brings, the spaces it opens up for us to learn from children’s voices and the many ways in which community mapping can be used to address aims and goals of the UK primary curriculum. Community mapping can help educators overcome a lack of confidence in how to approach outdoor learning. The child-led nature of projects can allow children and educators to work together to co-create their understanding of the locality, noticing the small details they hadn’t seen before. It can provide a space for educators to learn more about how the young people they work with see the world around them while also providing authentic experiences that can be utilized in wider classroom learning. This research allows other educators to take away what resonates with them, with their experiences and pedagogies, and use these new understandings to enhance their own educational practices in their own settings.
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Dankerlin, Louise Renée. "Seasonal migration, the farm-household economy and nutrition in rural Jamaica." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65443.
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Depczynski, Julie Catherine. "A population-based examination of cancer in New South Wales farm residents compared to rural non-farm and urban residents." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17114.
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The cancer indicators and outcomes of rural Australians are generally less favourable than those of their urban counterparts, but the situation for farm residents is less well known. With a focus on farm residents, this study aimed to identify differences between farm, rural non-farm and urban residents in a large NSW cohort, in: (1) incidence and mortality from major cancers; (2) screening rates, stage at diagnosis and selected cancer therapies; and (3) common risk factors associated with these cancers. Cancers of interest were breast, cervical, colorectal, lung and prostate cancers; melanoma and Non Hodgkins Lymphoma. The Sax Institute’s 45 and Up Study was used to define resident groups and to compare baseline cancer-related risk factors. Cancer mortality, incidence, stage at diagnoses, cancer screening practices and selected cancer treatments were compared through data linkage with routine state and national health datasets. Direct age-standardisation, proportional hazards regression and logistic regression were used to compare cancer indicators, controlling for common risk factors. Overall, farm residents had lower all cancer incidence and mortality risk than rural non-farm or urban counterparts, but differences were only significant for all cancer incidence in farm women compared to rural non-farm women. For specific cancers, breast cancer mortality risk was also significantly lower in farm women than rural non-farm women, but incidence and mortality risk for other cancers were not significantly different. However, whilst confidence intervals did not exclude unity, adjusted point estimates for incidence or mortality risk suggest that compared to other groups, farm residents had a similar or reduced risk of breast, colorectal and lung cancer; similar risk of NHL; and farm men similar or slightly raised risk of melanoma and prostate cancer. There were no significant differences in stage at diagnosis for prostate, breast and colorectal cancers. Small case numbers in the farm group were likely to have contributed to lack of significance of findings for some analyses. Screening practices of farm and rural non-farm residents were generally similar; but both rural groups had significantly less frequent PSA tests, Pap tests, mammograms and colonoscopies than urban residents. Cancer-related surgical services for breast and colorectal cancer were comparable between all groups. Some findings for non-surgical therapies should be considered with caution, but both farm and rural non-farm residents were significantly less likely to access chemotherapy for breast cancer and brachytherapy for prostate cancer than urban counterparts. Strengths and limitations of the research are discussed. Pending confirmation of findings in other studies, results have implications for cancer screening and treatment services in rural Australia. The reasons why farm residents may have lower incidence and / or mortality risk for some cancers should also be considered for further research.
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Pratt, Tyler. "Urban Agriculture and Small Farm Irrigation: Case Studies from Cache Valley, Utah." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4995.
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The landscape of water in Utah is changing due to population growth, conversion of agricultural land to urban development, and increasing awareness of water scarcity. The Utah Division of Water Resources forecasts that the currently developed water supplies will not be enough to provide for Utah’s future population, and is pursuing conservation and new development to meet the state’s anticipated needs.
Along with the urban growth Utah is experiencing a growing urban and small farm agricultural sector, but knowledge of water use in these operations is limited. Further research in this area aids in understanding the impact of land use change on the state’s hydrology, aids the state water authorities in water use estimates, assists farmers in moving towards wiser water management, and helps Utah State University Extension better meet the needs of small irrigators.
My research creates a clearer picture of urban and small farm agricultural irrigation in Utah. For the 2015 growing season I performed irrigation evaluations for 24 urban and small farms in Cache Valley, and I explore the results from both case study and statistical perspectives. My results show a great degree of heterogeneity with irrigation efficiencies ranging from 6% to 100%. In general, small fields had greater irrigation depths than large fields, and surface irrigated fields applied higher depths than sprinkle and drip irrigated fields. Yet a big influence on efficiency was management, as fields relying on a set schedule had higher depths than fields that were irrigated inconsistently due to other factors. Therefore, water conservation programs focused on reducing irrigated area or providing technological alternatives may not result in true water savings if the effect of management is ignored. In particular, urban and small farmers need increased awareness of how management can result in savings of time and money, and improved knowledge of how to measure application rates, improve application uniformity, and scheduling techniques. With improvements in these areas, water management on urban and small farms can be improved, therein helping the urban and small farm irrigators themselves as well as the state in meeting its future water needs.
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Herbst, Annemarie H. "Regulating farm nutrient runoff : Maryland's experience with the Water Quality Improvement Act." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33409.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-76).
Federal and state programs designed to address nonpoint agricultural nutrient pollution rely almost exclusively on voluntary programs and financial incentives to encourage farmers to adopt nutrient management plans and other best management practices. In 1998, after highly publicized fish kills highlighted shortcomings in the voluntary approach, Maryland adopted the nation's strictest and most comprehensive nutrient management regulations. Seven years later, a majority of farmers are not in compliance with the law. This thesis examines the Maryland Department of Agriculture's implementation of the Water Quality Improvement Act. I find the department has continued to adhere to a voluntary approach to nutrient management. As a result, farmer practices are largely unchanged and the efficacy of a mandatory approach remains untested.
by Annemarie H. Herbst.
M.C.P.
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Oviedo, Linda L. "The Genesis II project integrated sea water farm : commercial agriculture and aquaculture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69379.
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Hoskins, April D. "Development of a centralized database system for Embracing Horses and The Urban Farm." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2005. http://165.236.235.140/lib/AHoskins2005.pdf.
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Conklin, Lorraine C. "Recycling and reusing a restaurant's waste : creating a sustainable small-scale urban farm." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1355593.
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Urban sprawl, global warming and overused landfills are conditions around the world today, and while people are concerned about these issues they have few practical solutions to them. This creative project seeks to devise a way for a specific sector of business (restaurants), to have a practical way to help reduce global warming and waste while utilizing unused or under-used land in urban areas. While life cycle models are available that address such issues as these, very few case examples are actually in use in this country. Based on existing life cycle models, this project will seek to reuse the wastes from a restaurant and recycle them into a garden/greenhouse (called an urban farm throughout this paper) which will produce food for the restaurant. The three main waste categories from the restaurant to be looked at are the organic kitchen food wastes, water and the heat that is always being expelled from the kitchen while it is operation. Additional ways to make a restaurant more sustainable will also be given. This project will show what the benefits are when a sustainable system is in operation.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Porter, Matthew R. Porter. "Farm Household Motivations and Diversification Strategies of Organic Farmers at the Rural Urban Interface." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469172871.
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Ballard, Brett M. "Farm-level bureaucrats in action (and inaction) : the distribution of veterinary services in Laos and Cambodia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33021.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-135).
In this study, I analyze several dimensions of the institutional environment that govern contractual exchange between veterinary service providers and farmers in Laos and Cambodia. I hypothesize that the negotiation, implementation, and enforcement of informal service contracts entail economic and social transaction costs that can distort provider incentives, thereby affecting the quantity, quality, and financial sustainability of services over time. I have employed qualitative field research methods to interview service providers, government officials, and farmers about their role in and perceptions of veterinary service delivery. I focus my analytical attention on the community-based service providers as they are the key institutional link between the supply of and demand for veterinary services at the local level. In Laos, I analyze the relationship between the mode of agricultural production within a particular agro- ecological setting and the incentives that motivate Village Veterinary Workers (VVWs) to provide services. I identify five different service-provider types, including citizen vaccinators, barefoot entrepreneurs, special agents, warrior vaccinators, and dormant providers. In Cambodia, I analyze how exchange relationships between government technicians and farmers, and among government officials of different administrative levels, were structured according to an ethics and logic of patron-client relationships that characterize social interaction in much of Cambodian society. I show how a complex system of shadow revenues and gift exchanges enabled farm-level bureaucrats to distribute animal vaccines and maintain organizational cohesion during ongoing social and political unrest in the early-mid 1990s.
(Cont.) I then analyze how informal service contracts between Village Livestock Agents (VLAs) and their clients are governed by local norms of reciprocity and mutual exchange in rural northwest Cambodia. I identify two types of VLA entrepreneurs, charismatic/benevolent and career/professional service providers, who continue to provide services on their own. I also analyze how VLA professional associations can support the sustainable delivery of services by private sector providers. I conclude that reform measures, including those featuring some elements of privatization and/or decentralization, can be successful only to the degree to which they establish or strengthen supporting institutions that take into account local realities governing contractual exchange between service providers and clients. This observation is especially relevant in situations where current efforts are directed at "bottom-up reform."
by Brett M. Ballard.
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Nunley, Mariel. "From Farm to Fork to Landfill: Food Waste and Consumption in America." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/37.
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This thesis focuses on the creation and disposal of food waste in the United States. Food waste is a specific yet highly critical issue that implicates the large, incongruous systems of both food production and waste disposal. Waste is created throughout the food supply chain, with producers as well as consumers guilty of throwing away good food. Rather than repurpose food as compost or donate it to those in need, wasted food, although completely biodegradable and often edible, is mixed in with the rest of our garbage and disposed of in a landfill. By evaluating the systems of waste disposal and food production, I illustrate the ways in which both of these industries encourage the creation of food waste and conceal its harmful effects. I argue that it is necessary to prioritize source reduction of wasted food, rather than rely upon infrastructure that keeps waste “out of sight, out of mind.” Despite the factors that shelter it from our critical consideration, it has become necessary to prioritize food waste as a legitimate environmental, social, and economic concern.
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Inwood, Shoshanah M. "Sustaining The Famiy Farm At The Rural Urban Interface: A Comparision Of The Farm Reproduction Processes Among Commodity And Alternative Food And Agricultural Enterprises." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1227545514.
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Inwood, Shoshanah Miriam. "Sustaining the family farm at the rural urban interface a comparision [i.e. comparison] of the farm reproduction processes among commodity and alternative food and agricultural enterprises /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1227545514.
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Costrut, Ileana. "Re/learning toTeach: three teachers' experiences in an environmental education initiative on an urban farm." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30491.
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"Re/learning to Teach" is a case study that explores three elementary teachers‘ experiences teaching in the Intergenerational, Landed Learning Project (LLP), an environmental education initiative on an urban farm, and examines the impact of these experiences on the teachers‘ professional growth and practice.
To achieve this goal, I employed a case study approach. I worked with three teachers who had participated in the LLP over a number of years. I observed these teachers as they taught lessons in their classrooms and participated in activities with their students at the farm. I also used semi-structured interviews to gain insight into the teachers‘ motivations for participating, the challenges they experienced during their participation, their learning, and the ways their professional practice changed over the course of their involvement.
My study revealed that at the farm, teachers learned about food-growing, land stewardship, and the value of community learning, alongside their students. As they participated in this new educational space, the teachers experienced a number of challenges that prompted reflection and professional growth. They discovered new roles and learned teaching practices that helped them bring an environmental focus to their classroom lessons, their schools, and beyond. The findings also suggest that the people, the place, and the program of the LLP inspired the teachers to add a social action component to their lessons to motivate students to become responsible citizens and future decision makers.
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Hill, Christopher. "Exploring the ‘Unknown Unknowns’ of Urban Farming : An ethnographic case study, in narrative form, on the last urban farm in Stockholm, Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-62128.
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Abstract. The prediction of growing global populations flocking to cities, increasingdemands for more food production, the call to maintain biodiversity and the interactionsof many different stakeholders elicits quite a mind-boggling medley of complexity. Theact of 'urban farming' may be a promising starting point in which to begin understandingthis complexity. This thesis strives to untangle the variables within this predictionthrough a narrative approach, weaving in relationships of power in order to understandthe complexity of this 'mess,' by tracing the actions of the last urban farmers inStockholm, Sweden. Employing Complexity Thinking, the narrative is temporallyorganized in order to highlight context, purpose and motive, aiming to promoteverisimilitude through systematically assembling interpretations while supporting themwith thick details as to what 'urban farming' interpretively is. Discrepancies, connectionsand contradictions from the case study are juxtaposed against one another to displayplurality of views across different scales of space and time. The case study highlightsurban farming's marginalization by illustrating historically distinct institutional shifts ingovernance; drawing attention to policies and regulations, past actions and artifacts,which, when self-organized to the present, are 'currently' reducing the farmers'possibilities for food production, promoting instead, an arguably beautiful, yet'unsustainable' biodiversity-and-urban-park emphasis, ignoring the appetites of the city'srapidly growing population and the accompanying external food dependencies that growwith it. Conclusions point to a deeper seeded issue in the founding assumption of thescientific prediction, calling attention to contextuality, unpredictability, the problemsassociated with a governing logic and/or a compressed-way-of-thinking and the generalneed or willingness to appreciate the complexity of things, actions and people –particularly people who grow or raise our food.
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Zasada, Ingo [Verfasser], Klaus [Akademischer Betreuer] Müller, Stephan Akademischer Betreuer] Pauleit, and Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] [Verburg. "Peri-urban agriculture and multifunctionality: urban influence, farm adaptation behaviour and development perspectives / Ingo Zasada. Gutachter: Stephan Pauleit ; Peter Verburg. Betreuer: Klaus Müller." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1030100012/34.
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Chun, Nicholas. "Identifying Clusters of Non-Farm Activity within Exclusive Farm Use Zones in the Northern Willamette Valley." Thesis, Portland State University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10600978.
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This thesis provides an extensive look at where permitted non-farm uses and dwellings have clustered within Exclusive Farm Use (EFU) zones in the Northern Willamette Valley in Oregon. There is a looming concern that non-farm related uses and dwellings, or non-farm development, are conflicting with agricultural preservation strategies. Specifically, non-farm developments can potentially undermine the critical mass of farmland needed to keep the agricultural economy sustainable, but until now, studies have lacked spatially precise data to systematically track these phenomena. This thesis offers methodological contributions towards analyzing these operations and presents a broad account of what has been occurring in the region. Using permit approval data from the Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) and 2015 county tax lot shapefiles, I geocoded the locations of these uses and dwellings. I used location quotient and spatial autocorrelation coefficients to identify non-farm hotspots in the region and summarized different typologies that have developed. The findings reveal that viticulture operations have amassed near Dundee and Newberg in Yamhill County, while commercial activities and home occupations have clustered near the Salem-Keizer UGB. Concurrently, dwellings have clustered near the Yamhill-Polk County border. Finally, I offer suggestions to improve Oregon’s agricultural land use policy and data management process, as well as advocate for more intensive research in the future to generate narratives for our results.
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Amaral, Cristiane de Avila. "Vertical farm (fazenda vertical): análise da qualidade do investimento usando protótipo de empreendimento imobiliário." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3153/tde-09042018-151952/.
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\"Vertical Farms\" (Fazendas verticais), conceito formado por meio de estudos científicos em microbiologia e segurança alimentar no final da década de 1990, são representadas pelo cultivo intenso e protegido de hortaliças, árvores frutíferas e piscicultura. Reconhecendo que o tema abandona a abordagem experimental/ teórica e, em 2010, passa a repercutir com a implantação desse novo modelo de produção agrícola urbana pelo mundo, este estudo identifica a oportunidade de implementação da tecnologia no país e aproxima o mercado imobiliário da produção agrícola. A motivação deste estudo foi de fomentar o mercado de fazendas urbanas verticais, visando à melhoria do abastecimento de hortaliças e o controle das externalidades negativas ambientais do atual meio de produção agrícola, monocultura em larga escala e distribuição em longos trajetos, praticado para abastecimento metropolitano. Os objetivos gerais desta dissertação são: (i) prospectar como este tipo de tecnologia pode ser inserido no contexto urbano brasileiro; e (ii) definir parâmetros para escolher a melhor alternativa, usando o protótipo do mercado da cidade de Belém-PA. O objetivo específico é apresentar características e indicadores de forma a validar ou negar a validade do investimento em real estate. Este estudo aborda a inovação da Vertical Farm por meio da seguinte metodologia: (i) entendimento do mercado; (ii) análise de modelos de negócios das cinco alternativas reconhecidas em âmbito mundial, com enfoque no empreendedor imobiliário; (iii) identificação de parâmetros para elaboração de protótipo de empreendimento imobiliário, mais adequado para desenvolvimento deste negócio no Brasil; e (iv) simulações financeiras de três protótipos, traçando diretrizes comparativas para implementação no mercado imobiliário. Por fim, apresenta como resultado a análise individual de três protótipos e análise comparativa com enfoque no mercado imobiliário.\"Vertical Farms\", a concept formed through scientific studies in microbiology and food security in the late 1990s, are represented by the intense and protected cultivation of vegetables, fruit trees and fish farming. Recognizing that the theme leaves the experimental / theoretical approach and, in 2010, this new model of urban agricultural production is being implemented in the world, the study identifies the opportunity to implement this technology in the country and brings the real estate market closer to agricultural production. The motivation of this study was to promote the market of vertical urban farms, aiming at the improvement of the supply of vegetables and the control of the negative environmental externalities of the current means of agricultural production, monoculture in large scale and distribution in long routes, practiced for metropolitan supply. The general objectives of this dissertation are: (i) to investigate how this type of technology can be inserted in the Brazilian urban context and (ii) to define parameters to choose the best alternative, using the market prototype of the city of Belém-PA. The specific objective is to present characteristics and indicators in order to validate or deny the validity of the investment in real estate. This study addresses the innovation of Vertical Farm through the following methodology: (i) understanding of the market, (ii) analysis of business models of the five globally recognized alternatives, focusing on the real estate entrepreneur, (iii) identification of parameters for elaboration of a real estate project prototype, most suitable for the development of this business in Brazil, and, after (iv) financial simulations of three prototypes, outlines comparative guidelines for implementation in the real estate market. Finally, it presents as a result the individual analysis of three prototypes and comparative analysis with focus on the real estate market.
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Hochberg, Leah. "Urban Farm and Community Garden Hybrid Models: A Case Study of the Huerta del Valle Community Garden." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/320.
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This study examines models of community gardens and urban farms and determined a successful hybrid model for future implementation at the Huerta del Valle Community Garden. This was accomplished through analyzing the unique benefits and drawbacks of community gardens and urban farms as defined by the author, and then determining the components of each model that would maximize Huerta del Valle’s social and economic potential. Community gardens are defined in this thesis as places where community members can grow their own food in individual plots, and these spaces often contribute to community building, hands-on gardening education, and improved food access. Urban farms are defined as business models that produce food to sell to the community both to support the business and to improve community food access.
Through research of existing community garden, urban farm, and hybrid models, the author determined that the most effective hybrid model includes intensive crop production, crop sales onsite as well as in farmers’ markets and delivery methods, a large community garden, and education programs for the community. The author then offered Huerta del Valle a potential model that includes these components as well as a store front, cooking lessons, value-added products, a Community Supported Agriculture program, and specific themed gardening classes. This complete model will potentially increase Huerta del Valle’s scope so it is able to improve healthy food access throughout Ontario while creating an enduring economic model.
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Mims, LuAnn Margaret. "Rural preservation in an urban setting : advocating historical significance of the Martindale Farm as a representative of New Hanover County agriculture /." Electronic version (PDF), 2003. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2003/mimsl/luannmims.pdf.
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Parker, Denisha M. "Drivers of Predatory Insect Distribution in Urban Greenspaces." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1619126809030714.
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Stockwell, Ryan J. "Growing A Modern Agrarian Myth: The American Agriculture Movement, Identity, And The Call To Save The Family Farm." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?miami1050951369.
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Scharfenberg, Coline. "Drivers and barriers for a sustainability transition of the current food and agriculture system of the city of Malmö : A case study of the sustainable urban farm and meeting place Botildenborg." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43400.
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Humanity is facing massive sustainability challenges, such as climate change and the associated loss of biodiversity, water scarcity and food insecurity. Capitalist urbanisation drives furthermore profound transformations in rural and urban areas and thus in the agriculture and food systems, presenting both challenges and opportunities. Urban agriculture as a part of a local food system, where food is produced in an urban area and sold to consumers in that area, presents a new food production model, generating innovative tools to lower agricultural land use, improving resource use efficiency and biodiversity. Consequently, great potential can be attributed to a sustainable transformation of the agri-food system through urban agriculture. Like many cities around the world, Malmö has recognised the need for sustainable development. Therefore, the city of Malmö has been addressing environmental, social and economic challenges for several years and is committed to a holistic and sustainable urban development. Although the city is aware of the benefits of small-scale urban agriculture, there are no policies that enable the upscaling of urban agriculture in the city. Botildenborg, a sustainable urban farm and meeting place in Malmö, on the other hand, has recognised the potential for sustainable business and development through urban agriculture for several years, by setting itself the goal to increase the local and ecologically produced food within the city through this form of agriculture. Botildenborg serves therefore as a case study of this research. In order to be able to provide indications for policies to shape the transformation steps towards sustainability within the agri-food system in Malmö, structures and patterns, as well as possible drivers and potential obstacles of a sustainable transition, are examined in the course of this research. The empirical results from qualitative and quantitative data are systematically processed using the multi-level perspective in combination with the urban political ecology. The results indicate that the identified barriers tend to be structural and are predominantly located in the economic and especially the political sphere. It seems that the non-monetary added value from urban agriculture is not perceived to its full potential by the city of Malmö. Botildenborg is stabilising itself mainly through knowledge sharing and network building, and thus will sooner or later be able, through the movement behind the network, to change the dominant agri-food regime. The rapidity of the transformation depends on the political ii willingness of the city of Malmö to explicitly integrate urban agriculture into its policies and regulations.
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Roxendal, Tara. "Designing Sustainable Wastewater Management : A case study at a research farm in Bolivia." Thesis, Institutionen för energi och teknik, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-174255.
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Sustainable sanitation and wastewater management are of increasing importance around the world while certain resources are becoming scarcer and therefore more valuable. The lack of proper wastewater management causes problems and the degradation of some resources. Increasing urbanization in peri-urban areas puts extra stress on the need for finding and implementing sustainable solutions to prevent ground- and surface water contamination. The study aimed to design a more sustainable wastewater management at the farm Ceasip located in the peri-urban area of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Due to the lack of proper wastewater management on the farm, Ceasip was a likely contributor to the contamination of the groundwater. Of the farm’s different wastewater sources, this study focused on the domestic wastewater and its possible reuse in agriculture. The prioritized sustainability criteria were to prevent groundwater contamination, reduce water usage and recycle nutrients. First various wastewater management options were identified. Next these were evaluated according to the different sustainability criteria previously mentioned. In order to determine a management option, data and information were collected and processed regarding water flows, water quality, physical conditions as well as sustainability criteria within environment, technology, socio-culture, health and economy. Results of the present conditions for Ceasip showed various characteristics, like small water flows, high nitrogen and fecal coliform concentration and clayey soils, from which suitability of different treatments was determined. Urine separation was deemed appropriate for Ceasip to increase the recycling of nutrients as well as reduce the nitrogen levels in wastewater. Treatment ponds and leach fields were designed as two wastewater treatment alternatives. For Ceasip to implement and manage water and wastewater sustainably through one of the mentioned alternatives could have a positive impact for the farm and environment, as well as serve as an example to employees, visitors and other establishments.El saneamiento y gestión sostenible de las aguas residuales es de creciente importancia en los tiempos modernos. Los recursos naturales son cada vez más escasos y valiosos. Mas aún, la falta del manejo adecuado de aguas residuales es causa importante de la degradación de los recursos restantes. La creciente urbanización en las zonas periurbanas acentúa la necesidad de encontrar e implementar soluciones sostenibles en el manejo de aguas residuales. En estas zonas dicho manejo (colección y tratamiento de aguas residuales) es deficiente. Como consecuencia se percibe una contaminación continua de las aguas subterráneas en estas condiciones. El objetivo del estudio realizado fue diseñar un sistema de gestión de aguas residuales más sostenible para la granja Ceasip ubicada en la zona periurbana de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. El estudio se enfoca principalmente en el manejo de las aguas residuales domésticas y su posible reutilización en la agricultura. Sin embargo, cabe mencionar que las aguas residuales en la granja Ceasip provienen también de otras actividades. Para el concepto de sostenibilidad de este proyecto, son prioritarios los criterios de prevención de la contaminación del agua subterránea, la reducción del consumo de agua y el reciclaje de nutrientes. La metodología de estudio consistió en varias etapas. Después de una extensa revisión de la literatura existente diferentes opciones de gestión fueron evaluadas de acuerdo con los criterios de sostenibilidad antes mencionados. Para hacer una elección de un tratamiento adecuado, se realizaron compilaciones y procesamiento de datos con respecto a los flujos y la calidad de aguas, las condiciones geomorfológicas, climáticas así como la evaluación de algunos parámetros ambientales, sociales, técnicos, económicos, y de salubridad. En las condiciones actuales, los resultados de las evaluaciones de la granja, resaltaron aspectos críticos sobre los que se propusieron algunos tratamientos alternativos; por ejemplo el aumento en el reciclaje de nutrientes así como la reducción de los niveles de nitrógeno en las aguas residuales. La separación de la orina se consideró de gran importancia para la gestión apropiada de las aguas residuales de Ceasip. Al final se sugirieron dos posibles alternativas para el diseño del tratamiento de aguas, la utilización de lagunas o de lechos filtrantes con arena, cuya contribuiría positivamente tanto como para el entorno local y el personal de la granja así como para la comunidad en general, sirviendo como ejemplo para otros establecimientos.
Hållbar sanitet och avloppsvattenhantering är av ökande vikt runt om i världen. Resurser blir allt knappare och mer värdefulla medan bristen på hållbar hantering även skapar problem och degradering av återstående resurser. På grund av den ökande urbaniseringen är grundvattnet i städernas periferier speciellt utsatt eftersom avloppsvattenhantering saknas där. Syftet med denna studie är att designa en mer hållbar avloppsvattenhantering för gården Ceasip i peri-urbana Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. I nuläget saknas en lämplig lösning på gården. Av de olika typerna av avloppsvatten på gården, fokuserar denna studie främst på avloppsvattnet från hushåll och möjligheterna att återanvända det inom jordbruket. För hållbarhetskonceptet i uppsatsen, prioriteras följande kriterier: skydd av grundvattnet, minskning av grundvattenkonsumtion och näringsåtervinning. En litteraturstudie gjordes över olika avloppsvattenhanteringsalternativ som sedan utvärderades enligt hållbarhetskriterierna. För att bestämma det mest lämpliga hanteringsalternativet, samlades data och information om vattenflöden, vattenkvalitéer, klimat, geomorfologi och även för miljö, teknik, hälsa, ekonomi och kultur. Resultaten från sammanställningen visade på olika egenskaper från vilka lämplig hantering bestämdes. För att öka återvinningen av näringsämnen och minska kvävekoncentrationerna i avloppsvattnet, visade det sig vara lämpligt att använda urinsortering. Två behandlingsalternativ designades, och det föreslogs antingen behandlingsdammar eller förstärkta infiltrationsanläggningar. Då någon av dessa alternativ tillämpas på Ceasip skulle man även kunna påverka lokalt och regionalt genom att sätta ett bra exempel.
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Lyle, Peter J. "Growing food in the city: A study across interaction design and urban agriculture." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84902/29/84902%28thesis%29.pdf.
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The thesis offers the foundation of a design pattern language for urban gardening, as well as a prototype mobile storytelling platform through which urban gardeners can share gardening experiences. This study examined three urban agriculture communities – a city farm, a permaculture movement, and residential gardeners – in order to better understand some of the challenges in their food growing practices.
The city is increasingly being rediscovered by gardeners, food activists, and local governments as an under-utilised opportunity space for land cultivation and local food production, and the findings of this research were analysed with a view to consider interactive technology and design interventions in response.
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Isgin, Tamer. "Valuation of farmland using real options theory : an economic analysis of the impacts of urban development on Ohio farm real estate /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148820355277839.
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Iatsenko, Ganna. "Urbanisticko – architektonická studie areálu pro šetrný turismus Strachotín." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-400733.
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This thesis offers an urban solution for the landscape near the village of Strachotín. The work is based on the need for a plan to develop the selected landscape. The project looks for the most suitable way to arrange the premises and the buildings located there functionally and spatially. The work aims to provide a concept that works in the context of tourism development, economic potential and the natural conditions of the region. The object chosen for study is an eco-farm, which includes stables for horses, horse riding facilities, accommodation for guests and restaurants. For the architectural design we have chosen the horse stable. The proposal is based on the need to solve the whole territory comprehensively, taking into account wider municipal and landscape links. The task was to propose the optimal functional and spatial arrangement of the locality, especially the farm for agrotourism and to offer selected additional functions.Another important question is how to proceed when designing an organic farm in the Czech Republic and what specific points to focus on in the proposal. The aim of the work and the solution that it wants to achieve is to generalize the principles of designing a new modern organic farm using the principles of ecological and energy-efficient architecture, renewable energy sources and waste-free management. The work represents a new direction for the development of settlements within landscape urbanism. The aim of the thesis is to show that it is not necessary to use the latest technologies and radical architectural concepts to create a comfortable and “green” rural area or public space. The idea behind the creation of the complex was the integration of Czech regional flora into the rural area with its buildings, materials and the feelings of its inhabitants. Therefore, other questions arise - what is characteristic of the Czech countryside? What is the purpose of rural life? What is rural identity? The main features of the traditional Czech countryside are castles, churches, ponds, trees, hills, fields, and livestock. The design of the organic farm seeks to achieve a certain overlap in the concept of the identity of the village and the education of children through attractive spaces where people and nature interact. The proposed diverse space of the organic farm will complement the missing traditional elements in the village, such as the pond, meeting rooms, orchard and countryside trails. In this way, the farm allows a confrontation between housing conditions and the landscape. The area is in contrast with the village of Strachotín, but it is designed in such a way that the two spaces join together in harmony. At some point, the differences between nature and the community disappear. The horse farm offers riding lessons, historical sightseeing tours, horse riding summer camps, and a horse riding farm. The project has a capacity of 20 stalls for horses. The farm is also very suitable for show jumping, exhibitions, horse auctions, hobby races and other one-off events. Another attractive tourist area is the location on the bank of the Věstonice reservoir. It is planned not only as a beautiful space for walking or cycling, but also as an area for various public events, such as farmers' markets. Thanks to the proposed variability of spaces and attractions, the farm can serve all year round and people will spend more time in the rural environment.
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Bowen, Dawn Suzanne. "Forward to a farm, the back-to-the-land movement as a relief initiative in Saskatchewan during the Great Depression." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0008/NQ27817.pdf.
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Madevu, Hilton. "Competition in the tridimensional urban fresh produce retail market : the case of the Tshwane metropolitan area, South Africa." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08212007-150102.
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Van, Der Hoven Anné. "Architecture of the interface: engaging architecture in a long neglected public space : the street." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78600.
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The project set out to develop a non-typological approach to public space in a poly-centric city. The principle of third space was used to conceptualise an interface for public life that would potentiate both public and private realms, and mitigate the issues currently related to contemporary public space.
The notion of third space was also considered for the projects programmatic response in order to achieve an authentic urban experience. In essence a bridge between industrial typology and retail space was proposed to remedy the state of the unconscious consumer as well as establish the cross-fertilisation that occurs when a larger demographic of users are present.Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Lteif, Carine. "L’agriculture de la région beyrouthine au prisme des terres waqf (Liban) : une géographie foncière des logiques agricoles." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MON30006/document.
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Dans les pays méditerranéens, l’agriculture en lien avec la ville connait des dynamiques variées, entre déclin et renouveau. Au Liban, les espaces agricoles sont de faible étendue, et limités par un relief escarpé. Le pays souffre également de politiques faibles d’aménagement qui n’accordent pas d’importance à l’agriculture urbaine. Pourtant, des formes agricoles persistent en ville. Dans cette thèse nous lisons l’agriculture en lien avec la ville au prisme d’un droit spécifique au monde arabe, le waqf. Nous partons d’une hypothèse qui voit sur les propriétés dotées d’un waqf une possibilité de maintien ou même de développement de l’agriculture de la région beyrouthine. Adoptant une approche multiscalaire, nous examinons l’agriculture sur le waqf au niveau de sites mais également d’exploitations agricoles, et dressons une géographie foncière des logiques agricoles observables dans la région beyrouthine.Selon nos résultats, les waqf sont assez présents dans l’agglomération beyrouthine. Les waqf agricoles présentent une meilleure résistance face à l’urbanisation -que les terres privées- lorsqu’ils sont associés à des couvents situés dans le périurbain de Beyrouth. Si l’objectif du waqf est l’immobilisation de biens dont les revenus doivent servir des actions pieuses, il en existe différents types au Liban : familial, caritatif, mais aussi religieux chez les chrétiens dont les revenus servent à soutenir les serviteurs de l’Eglise et l’accomplissement d’actes religieux. Quant à leur acquisition, la recherche a permis de distinguer deux discours : celui de religieux qui parlent surtout de waqf achetés, et le second, celui de laïcs, qui lient les acquisitions à d’anciens dons de terres. La gestion de waqf communautaires, majoritaires dans la zone d’étude, diffère selon les confessions religieuses présentes au Liban : elle est centralisée chez les grecs-orthodoxes, les sunnites et les catholiques dans le cas des waqf d’églises, et décentralisée chez les chiites et les catholiques lorsqu’il s’agit de waqf de couvents. Si la location et le métayage agricoles sont possibles sur le waqf, ils sont régis par des contrats s’étalant sur 3, 6, 9 ans chez les catholiques et variant selon le projet agricole chez les orthodoxes, ce qui confère une plus grande sécurité foncière aux exploitations agricoles que celle procurée par les terres privées louées (contrats annuels). Sur le waqf diverses formes agricoles se déploient : maraîchage, arboriculture, élevage et transformation (faire-valoir direct par des religieux), mais aussi des cultures hydroponiques, des pépinières et des cultures spéciales (faire-valoir indirect), alors que sur les terres privées nous retrouvons du maraîchage et de plus en plus de pépinières. Les logiques agricoles identifiées montrent un regain agricole sur les waqf empruntant des trajectoires différentes et entretenant des liens divers à la ville.Finalement, les waqf, malgré leur vocation sociale, n’apparaissent pas comme des communs, ni comme des propriétés privées. Ils sont plutôt mus par des logiques communautaires qui leur sont propresIn the Mediterranean countries, agriculture linked to city knows various dynamics, between renewal and decline. In Lebanon, agriculture extends over small surface areas and is limited by steep terrain. Moreover, the country suffers from weak planning policies that do not address its agriculture, especially that found in urban contexts. Yet, agriculture persists in the city. In this thesis, we explore agriculture linked to the city in the light of a right that is specific to the Arab region, the waqf. We depart from the following hypothesis: waqf properties allow to maintain, if not to develop, agriculture related to the city. Adopting a multiscale approach, we examine agriculture on waqf at the level of sites, as well as production units, and draw a geography, rather a land geography based on agricultural actors’ logic or logiques agricoles in french.According to our results, waqf lands are quite present in the Beirut region. Agricultural waqf are more resilient- than private lands- to urbanization, especially when found on convent sites located in the peri-urban area of Beirut. If the objective underlying the constitution of a waqf is the immobilization of goods for usages generating revenues for pious actions, still we can distinguish different types of waqf: family, charitable but also religious waqf, especially Christian religious waqf, whose income is used to support the servants of the Church and the fulfillment of religious actions. Management of community waqf, abundant in the study area, differs among religious communities: it is centralized among Greek-orthodox, Sunnis and Catholics in the case of church waqf, and decentralized among Shiites and Catholics in the case of convent waqf. If agricultural leasing and sharecropping are possible on waqf lands, they are ruled by contracts extending over 3, 6, 9 years among Catholics, and varying according to the agricultural project among the Orthodox, which grants a greater land security than which found on private lands (annually renewed contracts). Various agricultural forms can be found on waqf: market gardening, fruit trees, breeding and processing (direct tenure by clergymen) but also hydroponics, nurseries and special crops (indirect tenure of lands, leasing), whereas on private lands we find market gardening and more and more nurseries. Identified agricultural logics show a revival of agriculture on waqf lands borrowing different trajectories and maintaining various links to the city.Finally, the waqf, despite their social vocation, do not appear as commons nor as private properties. They are rather driven by their own communitarian logic
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Davey, Calayde Aenis. "Proximity vertical agriculture at the Pretoria West Power Station." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30285.
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The thesis addresses the proximity of contemporary global human issues to local human issues and presents an architectural solution. By identifying, exploring and drawing closer the proximities between these global and local issues, new solutions can be developed for local application. There are new fields created for architecture when we understand and connect the proximity of objects of both cultural and biophysical creation, and when we understand and build on our ever-narrowing proximities between what has been and what is to come. The narrowing global conditions have direct implications on us as individual human beings and our individual local societies. These proximities have been explored, developed, and resolved for local application. The resulting research field for urban agriculture ultimately guided an appropriate architectural response within the city of Pretoria, South Africa.Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Leis, Stephanie Marie. "Engaging with Consumers: How College of Agriculture Graduates Engage with Consumers After Graduation." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1432692118.
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Rebeca, Madalena de Sousa Costa Pereira. "Reconectar a cidade à sua frente de água." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/21750.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado com a especialização em Interiores e Reabilitação do EdificadoO Parque Natural da Ria Formosa é um dos tesouros mais bem guardados do Sul de Portugal, destacado pela sua paisagem única e diversidade faunística e florística. Faro, inserido na zona de maior extensão da Ria Formosa, vive de costas voltadas para a mesma, graças à presença da linha do comboio, que, presente ao longo de toda a frente ribeirinha, se torna um obstáculo visual e físico incontornável. No entanto, existe uma zona, esquecida pela cidade, que apresenta potencial para uma reconexão entre a Cidade e a Ria. Face à existência de Vazios Urbanos, gerados pela desindustrialização das cidades, tem-se assistido à sucessiva Revitalização Urbana dos mesmos, através de acções que contribuem para o reforço da identidade da cidade. Inserido na temática da Revitalização de Frentes de Água, o presente trabalho busca uma reconexão entre a Cidade de Faro e a Ria Formosa, através da Revitalização do Cais Comercial de Faro e do seu tecido adjacente. Efectivamente, através de uma intervenção sensível ao carácter natural da paisagem protegida, busca-se restabelecer uma ligação há muito perdida, reafirmando Faro enquanto capital distrital. De forma a criar uma nova centralidade, a implantação de equipamentos âncora, a oferta de Espaços Públicos de qualidade e a exploração da Náutica de Recreio, como produto de referência da cidade, tornam-se armas de peso que tornam esta zona obsoleta na ligação privilegiada da Cidade ao Parque Natural da Ria Formosa.
ABSTRACT: Ria Formosa Natural Park is one of the greatest treasures held in the South of Portugal, highlighted by its unique landscape and biodiversity. Given the placing of the railway along Faro’s waterfront, that becomes a visual and physical barier, the city, even though is inserted in the biggest extension area of this treasure, lives oblivious to it’s potencial. However, there is an area, overlooked by the city, that has the potential to reconnect the city to its waterfront. We live in an era that has been pursuing urban void’s, generated in post-industrial cities, to revitalize them in hopes of reinforcing the city’s identity. Following the current movement, of Waterfront Revitalization, this Master Thesis seeks a reconnection between the city of Faro and Ria Formosa and an improvement of the city’s urban environment by Revitalizing Faro’s Port and its surroundings. The aim is to reestablish a long-lost connection, through an intervention that takes into consideration the natural charm of this protected landscape, to be able to reaffirm Faro as the district’s capital. In order to turn this obsolete area into an exceptional link between the city and the water, the inclusion of flagship equipment’s, the design of quality public spaces and the development of the yachting sector become this area’s biggest asset, shaping it into a new urban cente
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Boemo, Daniel. "DESENVOLVIMENTO DE SISTEMAS COMPUTACIONAIS MÓVEIS INTEGRADOS A RECEPTORES GPS BLUETOOTH APLICÁVEIS A GESTÃO RURAL E URBANA." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2007. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9608.
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The advance on areas to the technology has proportionate new forms to create and to store given. Daily, the organizations accumulate given on diverse processes, e
many of these, they are worked the field in the format of spread sheets, questionnaires and other ways of survey, restricted the simple notes. With the sprouting of computational devices with reduced dimensions, known as PDA
(Personal digital assistants) or Pocket PC, associates to a new paradigm, mobility. The work to follow, it will go to show to the possibility of use of mobile computational
systems in the simplification of collection processes and data processing the field, detailing three systems in distinct areas, that they use technology GPS (Global Position System) with connection without wire Bluetooth making possible the
geoprocessing of the databases. The areas chosen in question and its respective systems had been the precision farming, Urban Registry and the farm management.O avanço das áreas ligadas à tecnologia tem proporcionado novas formas de criar e armazenar dados. Diariamente, as organizações acumulam dados sobre diversos processos, e muitos destes são trabalhados a campo no formato de planilhas, questionários e outros meios de levantamento, restritos a simples apontamentos. Com o surgimento de dispositivos computacionais com dimensões reduzidas, conhecidos como PDA (Personal digital assistants) ou Pocket PC, associados a um novo paradigma, a mobilidade, o trabalho a seguir irá mostrar a possibilidade de utilização de sistemas computacionais móveis na simplificação de processos de coleta e processamento de dados a campo, detalhando três sistemas em áreas distintas, que utilizam tecnologia GPS com conexão sem fio Bluetooth, que possibilita o geoprocessamento das bases de dados. As áreas escolhidas em questão e seus respectivos sistemas foram a agricultura de precisão, cadastro urbano e a gestão rural.
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Uherková, Ivona. "Hranice – redefinice městské struktury." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-401813.
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The diploma thesis Park and Ride deals with the design of a car park in the town of Hranice, which is known mainly for its important transport train node and Hranice Abyss. The city now suffers from the high intensity of car traffic in the city center due to insufficient street network. This network is disrupted by a four-lane road that was built in the 1980s and cut natural transport links. The abolition of the four-lane road, which is now lacking in transport services, releases a large amount of development area, which is primarily used as an agri-recreational area. Part of this green belt is the parking house, which prevents the entry of surplus cars into the city center. The parking house is a new transport hub of the city, which also includes elements of alternative transport - transfer to public transport or bicycle, which makes it possible to create a city center pleasant for pedestrians.
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Flemming, Phoebe K. "Cultivating the Connection Between South Boston Grows, A Garden-Based Nutrition Education Intervention, and Community Eating Habits." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1389608140.
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Souza, Rodrigo Henrique Busnardo de. "A Fazenda Capuava em Valinhos: estudo de caso de evolu??o urbana." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, 2010. http://tede.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/84.
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Previous issue date: 2010-02-26This work has purpose to analyse through the territorial transformations of the Capuava Farm the process of urban evolution of the city of Valinhos-SP and its integration in the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. It approaches the recent phenomenon of the urban dispersion, understanding the city of characteristic Valinhos-SP as one fabric urban of the contemporary metropolitan space. It analyses, on the basis of the lines of direction contained in the three existing Managing Plans elaborated by the City hall of the city, the trajectory of the Capuava Farm since the sprouting as coffee farm, with prominence for the period where it attracted modernist artists and intellectuals, the successive accomplished urban parcels in its territory until the situation current of the overthrown headquarters surrounded for fabric urban fragmented and occupied by distributed closed condominiums in quarters of diverse social classes. On the basis of the lines of direction contained in the three existing Managing Plans, elaborated for the City hall of the city, t argues the difficulties and potentialities of the preservation of the Capuava Farm while historic site and cultural overthrown and the paper that can perform in the context of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas.
Este trabalho tem por finalidade analisar atrav?s das transforma??es territoriais da Fazenda Capuava o processo de evolu??o urbana da cidade de Valinhos-SP e sua integra??o na Regi?o Metropolitana de Campinas. Aborda o fen?meno recente da dispers?o urbana, entendendo a cidade de Valinhos-SP como um tecido urbano caracter?stico do espa?o metropolitano contempor?neo. Analisa, com base nas diretrizes contidas nos tr?s Planos Diretores existentes elaborados pela Prefeitura do munic?pio, a trajet?ria da Fazenda Capuava desde o surgimento como fazenda de caf?, com destaque para o per?odo em que atra?a artistas e intelectuais modernistas, os sucessivos parcelamentos urbanos realizados em seu territ?rio at? a situa??o atual da sede tombada cercada por um tecido urbano fragmentado e ocupado por condom?nios fechados distribu?dos em bairros de diversas classes sociais. Com base nas diretrizes contidas nos tr?s Planos Diretores existentes, elaborados pela Prefeitura do munic?pio, discute as dificuldades e potencialidades da preserva??o da Fazenda Capuava enquanto patrim?nio hist?rico e cultural tombado e o papel que pode desempenhar no contexto da Regi?o Metropolitana de Campinas.
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Verroni, Jose Henrique Zioni. "Tarifa do transporte publico urbano por onibus : uma contribuição para determinação de seu valor." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/257664.
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Orientador: Orlando Fontes Lima JuniorDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo
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Resumo: As metodologias utilizadas para a definição do valor da tarifa têm sido baseadas na chamada ¿Planilha do GEIPOT¿, desenvolvida em 1982 e atualizada em 1994. Apesar de ser amplamente utilizada, esta metodologia apresenta algumas limitações, as quais podem ser separadas entre distorções de método, uma vez que não consideram o horizonte de planejamento como uma das variáveis determinantes do preço de serviços, e distorções de parâmetros, dentre as quais vale destacar a forma de tratamento da depreciação e da remuneração do capital Neste trabalho desenvolveu-se e avaliou-se um procedimento alternativo de cálculo da tarifa do transporte público urbano de passageiros por ônibus através do método de fluxo de caixa descontado com o objetivo de minimizar as distorções. A novidade deste procedimento é o emprego de índices financeiros (Remuneração do Capital e Taxa Interna de Retorno), para a definição das tarifas, que consideram o longo prazo das contratações realizadas entre gestores públicos e operadores privados. Através da análise da bibliografia que versa sobre o tema e de um estudo de caso elaborado com base em três sistemas distintos de transporte público, demonstrou-se que o cálculo de tarifa pelo método do fluxo de caixa descontado apresenta maior eficiência sob as óticas do usuário, do operador e do Poder Público, a saber, respectivamente: a) preço e qualidade do serviço, b) rentabilidade e margem do resultado e c) sobrevivência do operador e satisfação do usuário. Os resultados obtidos nos dois primeiros casos mostram que no longo prazo há um acréscimo no valor da tarifa, enquanto que no terceiro, há um decréscimo. Entende-se que haja viabilidade de uso do procedimento proposto devendo-se, entretanto, desenvolver mais alguns submodelos, tais como, para a definição dos custos de manutenção e sua inter-relação com a depreciação e remuneração do capital
Abstract: Traditional methodologies used for the calculation of fares values rely on the "GEIPOT Worksheet", developed in 1982 and up-dated in 1994. Although this is the most commonly used methodology in Brazil, it presents some limitations, which can be divided in two different categories. In terms of methods, the GEIPOT Worksheet does not consider the planning horizon as one of the most important determinants of service prices. In terms of parameters, it is worth to mention the accounting treatment given to assets depreciation and capital remuneration. The purpose of this work is to minimize the mentioned distortions and limitations through the development of an alternative methodology for calculation of public transportation fares based on discounted cash flow models. The methodology originality is the use of financial indexes, as cost of capital and internal rate of return, as the basis for fare prices definition, considering the term of contracts undertaken by the Public Company the and the Private Operators. Based on an extensive analysis of the correlated bibliography and a case study developed in three different public transportation systems, we demonstrate that discounted cash flow models are more efficient than the traditional methods according to the perspective of users, operators and Public Authority, considering (i) the service price and quality, (ii) profitability and operational margin, and (iii) the operator sustainability and the users satisfaction. The results obtained in the first two cases indicated that in the long run the proposed model would result in an increase of fare values, while in the third case the proposed model would result in the decrease of fare values in comparison to traditional models. It is acknowledged that the alternative methodology is feasible to be applied, only requiring the development of sub-models for specific topics, as the maintenance costs definition and it¿s relation to the capital depreciation and remuneration
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Niedzielski, Michael. "How far is too far? Spatial and socio-demographic determinants of “locked-in” commuting." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1248896630.
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Ferreira, Deocleciana. "Fazenda da Juta/SP: uma trilha entre o rural e o urbano: trajetória de luta e resistência no assentamento de um povo." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21206.
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This study reconstructs the transformation of an area in the eastern periphery of São Paulo from rural settlement to urban neighborhood. Emblematically, the area carries the name of Fazenda da Juta (Juta Farm), after a crop widely found in the region at the beginning of the 20th century, until the coffee crisis of 1929. During this process of transformation – from an area initially settled by Italian migrants dedicated to fruit farming, and later by Brazilian migrants from the drought-ridden Northeast of the country – the workforce faced conditions of extreme poverty that would give rise to struggles on two fronts: individually for work, and collectively, with their family and neighbors, for the urbanization of the territory they occupied. This ethnographic and documentary study recaptures the lived spaces of this history and collects stories, testimonies and memories to reconstruct the political struggles of the Fazenda da Juta Movement, and their consequences, over four decades. The study primarily focuses on the period from 1960 to 1990, although it traces shifts in land ownership and development processes back to the nineteenth century. This reconstruction shows these struggles among a segment of the population to be a legitimate expression of democratic, popular strength capable of producing continual counter-hegemonic mobilization for access to land and housing. The occupiers of Fazenda da Juta are the protagonists of this story, who, besides building their own homes, organized collectively to demand the provision of urban and social infrastructure in their neighborhood. This study draws on documentary evidence and testimonies to show that a popular neighborhood in the metropolis of São Paulo was urbanized primarily as a result of processes of social mobilization, while the State failed to meet its obligations to provide adequate living conditions in the city’s popular settlements
Este estudo reconstrói a trajetória de um povoado rural para um assentamento populacional urbano situado no extremo leste da cidade de São Paulo que traz emblematicamente o nome de Fazenda da Juta, plantio que a caracteriza no início do século XX até pós-crise do café de1929, alcançando o final dos anos 30 (1938), ocorreu o processo de mutação, desde a propriedade rural ocupada, inicialmente por migrantes italianos dedicados a lavoura de frutas, e após, por migrantes brasileiros, chegados da seca do Nordeste, na condição de força de trabalho miserabilizada que inicia dupla frente de luta, a individual, pelo trabalho e, com sua família e vizinhos, pela urbanização do território ocupado. O estudo, de cortes etnográfico e documental resgata espaços de vivências, recolhe histórias, depoimentos, memórias que vão reconstruir disputas políticas travadas, e os resultados de lutas do Movimento da Fazenda da Juta durante quatro décadas de sua presença e ação. A intensidade do estudo se refere ao período de 1960 a 1990 embora para identificação da propriedade e destino da terra tenha retrocedido até o século XIX. Essa reconstrução de luta popular de resistência da classe trabalhadora se mostra como expressão legitima de força democrática e popular capaz de travar permanente disputa contra hegemônica para o acesso à terra e moradia. Os assentados na Fazenda da Juta são protagonistas que para além da casa de alvenaria, organizaram um coletivo de moradores que lutou e obteve a instalação da infraestrutura urbana e social. Este estudo reitera com provas documentais e depoimentos o quanto um bairro popular nesta metrópole de São Paulo tem sua urbanização resultante do processo de luta da própria população uma vez que o Estado é omisso e lerdo em prover condições adequadas de vida nos espaços da cidade sobretudo os de assentamento popular