Week 3 (1/30): Rural-Urban Linkages

Diamond, Jared. 2005. Collapse. New York: Viking, 136-156.

Tacoli, Cecilia. 1998. Rural-Urban interactions: a guide to the literature. Environment & Urbanization 10(1):147-165.

Freidberg, Susanne E. 2001. Gardening on the Edge: The Social Conditions of Unsustainability on an African Urban Periphery. Annals of the Amer. Assoc. of Geog. 91(2):349-369.

Van den Berg et al. 2003. The transformation of agriculture and rural life downstream of Hanoi. Environment & Urbanization 15(1):35-52.

Moustier, Paul and George Danso. “Ch. 7: Local Economic Development and Marketing of Urban Produced Food.” 2006. Cities Farming for the Future. Ed. Rene van Veenhuizen. RUAF/IDRC.

Jacobs, Jane. 1984. Chapter Four: Supply Regions. Cities and the Wealth of Nations. New York: Vintage Books, 59-71.

Further recommended reading:

Shuman, Michael. H. Going Local: creating self-reliant communities in a global age. New York, New York: The Free Press, 1998. Selection TBD if book becomes available.

Article Summaries

Discussion question: discuss the human/social, environmental, and economic dimensions of rural-urban linkages and conflicts.

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