title: Urban Farming: Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community, and in the World
author: Thomas Fox
description: <div>...<b>this book looks like a textbook and reads like a novel</b>.... [T]the information in this book is spot-on, presented beautifully, and truly offers &quot;something for everyone&quot; in a way that's not overwhelming but still truly helpful. If I were to teach a class on urban farming...this is the book I'd use. - Pattie Baker, foodshedplanet.com</div><br /><br />&quot;...a new encyclopedic guide to urban food growing. It contains practical lists of how to build urban gardens as well as growing advice.&quot; - Jennifer Cockrall-King, Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution.
zlib_text:                                                 Journal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs 
  2017, Volume 1, Number 1, pages 76– 84 
   
   
  Urban Cages and Domesticated Humans  
  *Dr. Hossein Sadri 
  Department of Architecture, Girne American University, Turkey  
  A B S T R A C T 
  In this article, the study assessed the domestication process of humankind within the 
  frame of urbanization and power accumulation. Within this framework, by giving 
  various examples from chicken farms. The study express the author’s opinions on the 
  analogy of the “liberated human beings” in cities and the “free range” chickens in 
  farms. It has also been tried to explain how a city acts as a human farm. Cities are 
  governed by the ones holding power similar to the farms are ruled by farmers and 
  humans during their history of civilization have lost their right of deciding on their 
  lives and fates against this power as the domesticated animals in farms. It is necessary 
  to give up these cities which are models of life