Week 2 (1/23): Framing the Peri-Urban Interface & Feeding Cities

Dickinson, Robert Eric. 1964. City and Region: A Geographical Interpretation. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 554-576.

Howard, Ebenezer. 1946. Garden Cities of To-morrow. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 41-57, 138-150.

Simon, D., D. McGregor, & D. Thompson. 2006. Contemporary Perspectives on the Peri-Urban Zones of Cities in Developing Areas. In McGregor, Simon and Thompson (eds.) The Peri-Urban Interface. London: Earthscan, 3-12.

Douglas, Ian. 2006. Peri-Urban Ecosystems and Societies: Transitional Zones and Contrasting Values. In McGregor, Simon and Thompson (eds.) The Peri-Urban Interface. London: Earthscan, 18-29.

Ellis, Frank & James Sumberg. 1998. Food Production, Urban Areas and Policy Responses. World Development 26(2):213-225.

Midmore, D.J., & H.G.P. Jansen. 2003. Supplying vegetables to Asian cities: is there a case for peri-urban production? Food Policy 28:13-27.

Houston, Peter. 2005. Re-Valuing the Fringe: Some Findings on the Value of Agricultural Production in Australia’s Peri-Urban Regions. Geographical Research 43(2):209-233.

Hedden, W.P. 1929. Chapter II: Watersheds, Milksheds and Foodsheds. How Great Cities are Fed. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 17-36.

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