From vacant land to urban fallows
A Permacultural Approach to Wasted Land in Cities and Suburbs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4302016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Korsunsky (0000-0002-1093-2130, Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 282-304 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Political Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1073-0451 • E-ISSN: 1073-0451 |
| Publisher | University of Arizona (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2458/v26i1.22949 |
| OpenAlex | W2956475893 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 46 |
While vacant land in cities has long been considered a sign of decline, a growing literature now suggests that such land can serve valuable social and ecological functions. In this article, I argue that such approaches advocated to date, while beneficial, operate within a New Urbanist framework that is essentially concerned with filling in vacant land with new 'green' projects. Unfortunately, such approaches are limited by a conceptualization of the city that treats inner city vacant lots as paradigmatic and makes invisible the systematic creation of functionally vacant land through zoning and building practices in low-density residential areas. Inspired by degrowth scholarship, I suggest that permaculture may provide the basis for an alternative approach based in the concept of fallowing more suited to the full range of vacant land present in American cities and suburbs. I explore the implications of such an approach through the practice of two permaculture-inspired intentional communities in the Pacific Northwest
Civil engineering · Conceptualization · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Land use · Political science · Scholarship · Zoning · Engineering · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Law · Urban Green Space and Health
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Keywords (Routledge Revivals)
Friction
Seeing Like a State
Culturing community development, neighborhood open space, and civic agriculture
Marginal Spaces in the Urban Landscape
New Urbanism as Sustainable Growth
New Urbanism and Nature
Forgotten Roots of the Green City
Emergent public space
The production of urban vacant land
Vacant land
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Rethinking urban transformation
Hiding in plain view
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Sense of Community and Neighbourhood Form
A River and Its City
The Bulldozer in the Countryside
Permaculture in the margins
Imagined communities
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Terra Incognita
Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice
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Degrowth
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Seeing Like a State
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |