Toward Sustainable Relations Between Agriculture and the City

Chapter 1. Relations between agriculture and the city in Europe and the Mediterranean.- Part 1. Systemic approaches of agricultural- urban relations.- Chapter 2. Food, integrating urban and agricultural dynamics in Pisa, Italy.- Chapter 3. Logistic issues and impacts of short food supply chains: case studies in Nord - Pas de Calais, France.- Chapter 4. Interactions between agriculture and the city : a systemic approach to examine sustainability in Meknes (Morocco).- Chapter 5. Urban farms under pressure: Cairo's dairy producers, Egypt.- Part 2. Methods and tools to design sustainable urban food systems.- Chapter 6. An Ecological Footprint-based Spatial Zoning Approach for Sustainable Metropolitan Agro-Food Systems.- Chapter 7. Food cells and food nodes. Two new concepts for rethinking traditional urban and food planning practices. The case of Barcelona's Metropolitan Region.- Chapter 8. The integration between Mediterranean cities and agriculture in local projects. A conceptual framework.- Part 3. Inventory of changes in urban agriculture.- Chapter 9. Innovative Commercial Urban Agriculture in the Paris metropolitan area.- Chapter 10. Zero-Acreage Farming: challenges and opportunities for urban policies and partnerships.- Chapter 11. The emergence of Municipal Allotment Gardens in Greece in times of crisis. Governance challenges for new urban gardening practices.- Chapter 12. The proliferation of collective gardens in Lisbon (Portugal) and Montpellier (France): urban residents demand and municipal support.- Chapter 13. The urban agriculture governance in the city of Zurich.- Index.