1. Urban Agriculture:
Growing Healthy
Sustainable Places
(PAS 563)
Urban & Community-Based Agriculture:
Growing the Movement,
Cultivating Policy Change
CFSC Annual Conference/Oakland
November 8, 2011
Martin Bailkey
Growing Power, Inc.

2. Contents
 What is urban agriculture?
 History, definition, benefits, risks, prerequisites
 Facilitating urban agriculture through planning practice
 Visioning and goal setting, plan making, implementation
mechanisms, site design and development, other public-sector
programs and policies
 11 case studies
 Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City (KS/MO), Milwaukee,
Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Seattle/King Co, Toronto,
Vancouver
 Lessons learned
 Appendices
 Plans, policies, zoning regulations, animal control ordinances,
other municipal policies

4. Requirements for Urban Ag

5. Facilitating Urban Ag through
Planning
 Long-range community visioning and goal
setting
 Plan-making
 Standards, policies, and incentives to
achieve desired plan goals
 Influencing development project outcomes
 Influencing public investment decisions

6. Case Study Research
 11 North American cities
 Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City (KS/MO), Milwaukee,
Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Seattle/King Co,
Toronto, Vancouver
 Urban agriculture practitioners
and advocates, local government
officials, planners
 Local planning documents, ordinances,
regulations, policies

7. Case Study Topics
 Background & history of the metropolitan region
 Major urban agriculture stakeholders & actors
 Extent of stakeholder collaboration
 Local government and planning contexts
 Food-related studies done in the jurisdiction
 Local policies & programs having an impact on
urban agriculture
 Brownfield assessment & remediation for urban
agriculture

8. City Approaches to Urban Agriculture
Depend On
 Political leadership and vision
 Grassroots advocacy from urban
agriculture community
 Boundary spanning and bridging
work from nonprofit sector