This past Saturday, I returned home from a two week trip studying urban food production in Cuba with the Hunter College Urban Affairs and Planning Program. Urban agriculture in Cuba took off in the early 1990s- known as the Special Period- after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The loss of its dominant trading partner [...]
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending Speaker Christine Quinn’s release of FoodWorks, the City Council’s plan for a more sustainable New York City food system, at the Food and Finance High School on Manhattan’s West Side. The plan traces the NYC food system from production to post-consumption (i.e. waste) and outlines 59 policy proposals [...]
I grew up with boats, canoeing the upper Hudson River and its tributaries, kayaking Maine’s coast, portaging canoes between Adirondack lakes and sailing Vermont’s varied winds. But in seven years of living in New York City, surrounded by water, I never once shipped off shore, save for some ferry rides. Blame it on the difficulty [...]
The conventional definition of over-development typically applies to the fringe of a city: it impacts pristine land, adds to soil erosion, contributes to pollution in storm-water run-off, loss of habitat, loss of entire ecosystems, etc. But when it occurs in the center of a city, we drop the pejorative prefix and unreservedly laud it as [...]
Last week, The New York Times ran an article about revitalization efforts in downtown Detroit – taking place in the form of BBQ. It profiles Phillip Cooley, founder and co-owner of Slows Bar BQ, a neighborhood BBQ joint opened in 2005 that is bringing people from all over the city and beyond for a taste. [...]
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