Why farm the city? Theorizing urban agriculture through a lens of metabolic rift

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 191-207

  McClintock, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

alienation; commodification; metabolism; scale; the commons; urban farming

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954122060     PISSN: 17521378     EISSN: 17521386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsq005     Document Type: Article

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