Planning for Urban Agriculture Planning in Australian Cities
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Cities have always been dependent on a variety of resources not only for their survival, but also to enable them to serve as places of innovation and civilisation. As those who in the past laid siege to cities knew all too well, one of the most important of these resources is food. Over the course of the last century cities have been supplied with their food from an increasingly wide range, indeed most Australian cities are now supplied with food from many different parts of the world as well as from different parts of Australia (Gaballa and Abraham 2008).
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تاریخ انتشار 2011