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Pittsburgh: a new urban planning to support urban gardening

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Author FAO, EStà, City of Pittsburgh

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) In 2015, Pittsburgh City Council gave its residents the right to produce the food they needed through the updating of its zoning code. As a consequence of this shift, the application process to benefit from public vacant land for farming has been facilitated.

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