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In today’s 21st century of technological achievements, society is more in tune with which new cellular devices are able to open the front door of your house with “just the touch of one key”. It is this very co-dependence on technology that has lead to the lost of our connection with the foundation of life: earth and what it produces. With the world’s population at a staggering 6,881,821,283 count and growing reports the 2010 U.S Census Bureau, we as a society today face issues like world starvation, widespread disease and an increase of global warming due to human production. In a society where more than a three quarters of the general population lives in urban areas, leaving one mere quarter in rural locations, the result is a loss of association with the rural upbringings of our societies history. Within the article Urban Agriculture And Sustainable Cities its authors comment:

“Large cities, not villages and towns, are becoming our main habitat. Urban growth is changing the face of the earth and the condition of humanity. In one century, global urban populations have expanded from 15 to 50% of the total, which itself has gone up from 1.5 to nearly 6 billion” (Deelstra/ Girardet).

In a world of cultural scientific knowledge and industrialization, establishing agriculture into the ever-growing urban communities is essential and can nurture social consensus, economic and environmental merits that can be distributed plentifully.

One of the most popular and world recognized urban community; New York City is an ideal urban community with its mass production of practically everything manufactured and population rates. Due to it sweeping population, New York City is faced with many environmental crisis’ like water and air poll...

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• Saldivar-Tanaka, Laura, and Marianne E. Krasny. "Culturing Community Development, Neighborhood Open Space, and Civic Agriculture: The Case of Latino Community Gardens in New York City." Agriculture and Human Values 21.4 (2004): 399-412. Print.

• Villarejo, Don. "The Health Of U.S. Hired Farm Workers." Annual Review of Public Health 24.1 (2003): 175-93. Print.

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• Zande, Robin Vande. "The Advantages of a Rooftop Garden and Other Things." International Journal of Art Design Education 25.2 (2006): 205-16. Print.

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