The Elephant and the Castle; towards a London Edible Landscape
In: Urban Agriculture Magazine no 22. Building Resilient Cities pp. 37-38 June 2009
Abstract: The concept of resilient cities is increasingly heard today. Whereas in southern countries access to food is a major motivation for people to engage in urban agriculture, in northern cities, such as London, people are driven more by environmental reasons such as the damaging effects of excessive food miles. Regardless of the motivation, urban agriculture is a positive step toward greater resilience.
The paper can be read here www.ruaf.org/book/
The ‘Ugly Sister’ 1 of Garden History: The Capital’s Nineteenth-century Market Gardens as Depicted by Thomas Milne’s Land Utilization Map. A Possible Visualisation for a Contemporary Urban Agriculture?
In “London Gardener”. Journal of the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust.
Volume fourteen. 2008-2009
A PDF of the article can be downloaded here: Mikey Tomkins London Gardener
Places for People, Places for Plants: Evolving Thoughts on Continuous Productive Urban Landscape
A. Viljoen1, K. Bohn2, M. Tomkins1, and G. Denny3.
The joint paper can be read here: viljoen-luhort-22-7-09
The slide show below are a extracts of my thesis entitled “The Edible Urban Landscape” Completed in 2006.
The thesis asks the essential question – How much open, grassed land, is available around for the Elephant and Castle to grow food, and how many people would this feed?
The full thesis can be read at www.cityfarmer.org
