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Fertile Zoning for Vertical Farming
Zoning Practice — May 2026by: Derrick Rhys Wilson, AICP, Melissa Ruth, AICP May 01, 2026This issue of Zoning Practice explores how zoning regulations can support vertical farming. It begins with an overview of vertical farming trends, market conditions, and regulatory barriers before examining lessons learned from existing vertical farming zoning regulations and presenting considerations for vertical farming zoning updates. -
Launch an Ethical Ag-Tech Program with These 6 Tips
Controlled-environment agriculture can support local food systems, prioritize equity, and build trust.by: Michelle McCue September 20, 2022Controlled-environment agriculture can support sustainable food systems, prioritize equity, and build trust. -
Ag-Tech Could Help Solve Food Insecurity and Supply Chain Issues
As climate change threatens traditional farming, venture capitalists and communities alike are investing in digital urban agriculture for more localized, all-season food growth.by: Michelle McCueAs climate change threatens traditional farming, venture capitalists and communities alike are investing in digital urban agriculture for more localized, all-season food growth. -
4 Zoning Changes That Boost Local Food Security
Zoning reform isn't only about housing. Municipalities can help increase food access with a few tweaks to local land-use law.by: Gina Hervey August 05, 2021Zoning reform isn't only about housing. Municipalities can help increase food access with a few tweaks to local land-use law. -
Can We Be Partners? A Case Study of Community Action and Local Food Systems Planning in Los Angeles
Journal of the American Planning Association, 85(3): 202-217, 2019by: David Sloane, Breanna Hawkins, Jacqueline IllumThis article presents a case study of how a heath advocacy organization in Los Angeles, CA, Community Health Councils (CHC), partnered with city planners and other allies to integrate food issues into three community plans. -
Urban Farming Is Going High Tech: Digital Urban Agriculture's Links to Gentrification and Land Use
Journal of the American Planning Association, 86(1): 47-59, 2020by: Michael CarolanThis article looks into where traditional urban agriculture and digital urban agriculture converge and diverge from one another as it relates to gentrification and inequitable land-use patterns. -
Regulatory Practices of Urban Agriculture: A Connection to Planning and Policy
Journal of the American Planning Association, 83(4): 389-403, 2017by: Mahbubur Meenar, Alfonso Morales, Leonard Bonarek, AICPThis article reviews policy and regulatory practices of urban agriculture in metropolitan and micropolitan areas. -
The Intersection of Planning, Urban Agriculture, and Food Justice: A Review of the Literature
Journal of the American Planning Association, 83(3): 277-295, 2017by: Megan Horst, AICP, Nathan McClintock, Lesli HoeyThis article explores the potential that planning for urban agriculture has on fostering food justice for communities. -
Pigs in the Backyard or the Barnyard: Removing Zoning Impediments to Urban Agriculture
Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, 38(2): 537-566, 2011by: Kate VoigtThis article examines the impact of municipal zoning regulations on urban agriculture and presents recommendations of how zoning can help municipalities encourage urban agriculture. -
Does Urban Agriculture Improve Food Security? Examining the Nexus of Food Access and Distribution of Urban Produced Foods in the United States: A Systematic Review
Sustainability, 10(9): 1-27, 2018by: Alana Siegner, Jennifer Sowerwine, Charisma AceyThis article explores the impact of urban food production on community food security. -
Food Policy: Urban Farming as a Supplemental Food Source
Journal of Social Change, 8(1): 1-13, 2016by: Bessie DiDomenica, Mark GordonThis article explores urban agriculture's potential of contributing to the urban food system. -
Promoting Urban Agriculture as an Alternative Land Use for Vacant Properties in the City of Detroit: Benefits, Problems, and Proposals for a Regulatory Framework for Successful Land Use Integration
Wayne Law Review 56(1521): 1521–1580, 2010by: John Mogk, Sarah Kwiatkowski, Mary WeindorfThis article makes the case that Detroit should actively promote the development of urban agriculture within its boundaries to boost the local economy, improve health, and help revitalize the city. -
Creating a Legal Framework for Urban Agriculture: Lessons from Flint, Michigan
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 1(2): 91–104, 2010by: Megan Masson-Minock, Deirdra StockmannThis article offers a detailed case study of changes to land development codes to allow for urban agriculture in Flint, MI. -
Urban Agriculture in a Post-Industrial Landscape: A Case for Community-Generated Urban Design
48th ISOCARP Congress, 2012by: Md Mahbubur Meenar, Jeffrey Featherstone, Amy CahnThis article examines urban agriculture practices in Cleveland, Detroit, and Philadelphia, focusing on urban agriculture as both a community-generated urban form in post-industrial urban landscapes and as a planning process and policy problem or opportunity. -
Institutionalizing Urban Agriculture: Process, Progress, and Innovation
PAS Memo — November/December 2014Urban agriculture has grown from a grassroots movement, consisting of local farmers and gardeners, to become a new institution in forward-thinking communities around the globe. As the movement continues, there are countless opportunities for planners to examine existing programs, consider the likely challenges, and discern optimal approaches for facilitating the goals of their own community. -
Local Food Systems Key to Healthy, Resilient, Equitable Communities
From the economy and environment to health and food access, local and regional food systems can help address a wide range of community concerns.by: Mary Hammon, Cynthia CurrieAs pressures on the U.S. agriculture and food businesses grow, governments across the country are experimenting with local and regional food systems models to better need their communities' needs. -
Fertile Zoning for Vertical Farming
Zoning Practice — May 2026This issue of Zoning Practice explores how zoning regulations can support vertical farming. It begins with an overview of vertical farming trends, market conditions, and regulatory barriers before examining lessons learned from existing vertical farming zoning regulations and presenting considerations for vertical farming zoning updates. -
Zoning for Small-Scale Composting in Urban Areas
Zoning Practice — September 2014by: Lauren Suerth, Alfonso Morales September 01, 2014This issue of Zoning Practice provides planners and zoning professionals with the basic regulatory context for organic waste so they can better understand the factors that influence how and where composting can occur in a specific jurisdiction.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Urban Agriculture as an Emergent Land Use
Zoning Practice — August 2014by: Brian Barth August 01, 2014This issue of Zoning Practice describes the spectrum of land-uses and activities that comprise urban agriculture and analyzes how three very different cities are promoting urban agriculture through zoning.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Zoning for Urban Agriculture
Zoning Practice — March 2010by: Nina Mukherji, Alfonso MoralesThis issue of Zoning Practice places urban agriculture in a historical context, examines regulatory approaches, and makes recommendations for planning and zoning practice.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Urban Agriculture and the (New) Land-Grant University
February 01, 2017The University of the District of Columbia’s CAUSES presents an unusual case of a land-grant university taking on the food and sustainability challenges of a major city. -
The Ten-Foot Diet: The Emerging Hyperlocal Food System
May 01, 2016Hyperlocal food production is moving to a commercial scale in cities like New York and Chicago. -
Planning for Agriculture, Not Just Around It
January 01, 2016In the Viewpoint column from Planning’s January 2016 issue, Julia Freedgood with the American Farmland Trust encourages planners take agriculture into account in their planning efforts.
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