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Institutionalizing Urban Agriculture Can Provide More Than Hope for Poor San Franciscans: An analysis of the Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone Act (UAIZ)

Rania Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed-2015-01-01-USF Scholarship Repository (University of San Francisco)
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Cities have turned to urban agriculture (UA) as a means of revitalizing neighborhoods and addressing unmet food needs of urbanites. Farming the city has gained momentum and has become an important force in urban social landscapes and economics. UA has also sparked debates about the appropriate development of highly valuable private spaces. In 2014, the City of San Francisco created a tax incentive to encourage owners to use undeveloped private properties in UA. This tax incentive represents the political prioritization of UA as legitimate land use in San Francisco with the possible purposes of either meeting a pressing residential need or implementing a feel-good policy to meet public demand. This research raises a significant question: What is the role of the Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone (UAIZ) Act in utilizing private properties to provide access to food for low-income populations in the built-up landscape of San Francisco? This question leads to many other questions on the subje

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Cities have turned to urban agriculture (UA) as a means of revitalizing neighborhoods and addressing unmet food needs of urbanites. Farming the city has gained momentum and has become an important force in urban social landscapes and economics. UA has also sparked debates about the appropriate development of highly valuable private spaces. In 2014, the City of San Francisco created a tax incentive to encourage owners to use undeveloped private properties in UA. This tax incentive represents the political prioritization of UA as legitimate land use in San Francisco with the possible purposes of either meeting a pressing residential need or implementing a feel-good policy to meet public demand. This research raises a significant question: What is the role of the Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone (UAIZ) Act in utilizing private properties to provide access to food for low-income populations in the built-up landscape of San Francisco? This question leads to many other questions on the subje

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AgricultureIncentiveUrban agricultureEnvironmental planningBusinessAgricultural economicsEnvironmental protectionGeography

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