Public Talk: Making Space for Urban Agriculture

The SFU Urban Studies program welcomes Paul Burton, Professor of Urban Management and Planning, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia for his talk: “Making Space for Urban Agriculture.”

Australia sees itself as a food secure country, able to help feed a growing global population. However, it continues to build national and local food systems that rely on increasingly complex distribution systems. Extreme weather events and other existential threats to food production and distribution are prompting greater attention to the re-localisation of these systems and planning regimes can help or hinder these process. In this talk, Professor Burton critically reviews Australian practice and explores what might be learned from Canadian experience of local and metropolitan planning for greater food security.

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