Tag Archives: urban planning

Urban Agriculture In Lusaka, Zambia

March 6, 2011

My first published paper in a peer-reviewed undergraduate journal: the Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Development Studies, also known as Undercurrent (Fall/Winter 2010, Volume 7, issue 3, p. 36-43) From Colonialism To Modernism To Postcolonialism: The Case of Urban Agriculture In Lusaka, Zambia By Tiffany Tong ABSTRACT – While urban agriculture is garnering much attention as an essential and beneﬁcial practice, there is still strong, sometimes seemingly illogical, resistance to its promotion in cities. Through studying the case of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, this paper […]

Perceptions of Space

September 15, 2010

Post I wrote for the Sustainable Cities blog: —————————————————————————- “How do you think the perception of space here in Dar es Salaam differs from in North America?” This question popped up during one of my attempts to understand my urban geographer roommate’s work. Leslie McLees’ PhD research focuses on investigating the meaning of space for the inhabitants of Dar es Salaam through urban agriculture activities. While this is a hard question to answer, especially since we are only brief visitors […]

Tiffany in five sentences…

Tiffany prefers to spend her days globetrotting and living out of a backpack. She is deeply intrigued, frustrated, and inspired by international development work, especially in food security, education policy, and citizen agency issues. One day, she hopes to convince the world economic system to work in favour of the marginalized and the environment. One of her identities is being a graduate from the Global Resource Systems program in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. She aims to write posts that will make her cringe in ten years on this blog.