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Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand: The Collapse of Local Horticulture book cover

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Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand The Collapse of Local Horticulture

By Benjamin Felix Richardson Copyright 2024
236 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Auckland’s rapidly expanding urban periphery, combined with comparative case studies from California in the USA and Victoria in Australia, the book examines how the profit-making strategies of property developers and landowners... Read more

Introduction: the suburban frontier

Part One Financializing the Kumeu River Valley

1. The rise of property development, the collapse of horticulture, and the restoration of financial power in Kumeu-Huapai

2. The historical process of the capitalization of the Kumeu River Valley

3. The axiologies of Kumeu-Huapai’s land

4. The political economy of peri-urban sprawl in Auckland

Part Two Life at the edge of the city

5. National and international comparative case studies on financially driven peri-urban development

6. Class, social allegiance, and race at the colonial urban periphery

7. Food sovereignty and peri-urban horticulture

8. Climate change and the future of peri-urban development

9. Conclusion: cities on the edge

Biography

Benjamin Felix Richardson is a Doctoral Candidate and a Professional Teaching Fellow in the department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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