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Urban Agriculture: A Response to Urban Food Deserts
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Mann, David
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Year and Degree
2009, MCP, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Community Planning.
Abstract
As an integral part of a new and improved food economy, urban agriculture has the potential to bring productive uses back to urban lands while creating jobs, social capital, green space, and, most importantly, fresh produce. The City Council of Cincinnati recently introduced a program to allow urban agriculture on city-owned vacant parcels. This thesis attempts to identify Cincinnati’s food deserts – areas without transit or pedestrian access to full-service grocery stores – in order to determine whether the new program has the potential to improve food access in the areas that need it the most. Once the food deserts are identified using GIS software, these are overlaid on maps of the proposed vacant parcels to determine if there is any overlap. Finally, an inventory of additional vacant parcels in the city is examined to determine the possibility of these being used to ameliorate the food access issues.
Committee
Frank Russell (Committee Chair)
Xinhao Wang, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
83 p.
Subject Headings
Agriculture
;
Health
;
Urban Planning
Keywords
urban agriculture
;
food systems
;
food deserts
;
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Mann, D. (2009).
Urban Agriculture: A Response to Urban Food Deserts
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1250617494
APA Style (7th edition)
Mann, David.
Urban Agriculture: A Response to Urban Food Deserts.
2009. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1250617494.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Mann, David. "Urban Agriculture: A Response to Urban Food Deserts." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1250617494
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Urban Agriculture: A Response to Urban Food Deserts by David Mann is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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