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Articles, Book Chapters, and Books
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Journal Articles
Journal Special Issues Guest Edited
- Raja, S, Clark, J., Freedgood, J., & Hodgson, K. (Guest Editors). (2018). Special Issue on Local Government in Food Systems Work. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. 8 (Supplement 2), October 2018. https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/issue/view/32
- Raja, S., Morgan, K., & Hall, E. (Guest Editors). (2017). Planning for Equitable Urban and Regional Food Systems (Editorial). Built Environment, 43 (3) https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.43.3.309
Books and Monographs
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Raja, Samina., Marcia. Caton Campbell, Alexandra. Judelsohn, Branden. Born, and Alfonso. Morales, eds. 2024. Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States : Future Directions for a New Ethic in City Building. 1st ed. 2024. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32076-7.
- Raja, Samina, Erin. Sweeney, Yeeli. Mui, and Emmanuel. Frimpong Boamah. 2021. Local government planning for community food systems – Opportunity, innovation and equity in low- and middle-income countries. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb3136en
- World Health Organization. 2018. WHO Housing and Health Guidelines. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization. [Role: Member, Guideline Development Group] WHO/CED/PHE/18.10
- The National Academies Committee on Health Impact Assessment. 2011. Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC. [Committee members and authors: D. Bear, R. Bhatia, S. Cantor, B. Cave, A. Diez Roux, C. Dora, J. Fielding, J Graff Zivin, Richard Jackson (Chair), J. Levy, J. Quint, S. Raja, A. Schulz, and A. Wernham.] https://doi.org/10.17226/13229.
- Raja, Samina, Branden Born, and Jessica Kozlowski Russell. 2008. A Planners’ Guide to Community and Regional Food Planning: Transforming Food Environments, Building Healthy Communities. Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Series, No. 554. Chicago, Illinois: American Planning Association. 112 p. https://www.planning.org/publications/report/9026878/
Book Chapters
- Raja, S. (2024). Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture: Opportunities and Quandaries. In Raja, S., Campbell, M. C., Judelsohn, A., Born, B., Morales, A. (Eds), Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States. Urban Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32076-7_1
- Raja, S., Campbell, M. C., Judelsohn, A. (2024). Planning [for Urban Agriculture] as Public Nurturance. In Raja, S., Campbell, M. C., Judelsohn, A., Born, B., Morales, A. (Eds), Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States. Urban Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32076-7_29
- Hall, E., Sherrod, S., Raja, S. (2024). Toward a Restorative Planning Ethic: Race, History, and Food Planning in Albany, Georgia. In Raja, S., Campbell, M. C., Judelsohn, A., Born, B., Morales, A. (Eds), Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States. Urban Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32076-7_12
- Raja, S., Raj, S., Ramos-Gerena, C.E. (2024). Municipal Planning Response to Urban Agriculture: Equity is Not Quite on the Table. In Raja, S., Campbell, M. C., Judelsohn, A., Born, B., Morales, A. (Eds), Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States. Urban Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32076-7_13
- Irish, A., Clark, J., Hodgson, K., Raja, S. (2024). The Relational Infrastructure of Food System Policy Development. In Raja, S., Campbell, M. C., Judelsohn, A., Born, B., Morales, A. (Eds), Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States. Urban Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32076-7_19
- Raja, S., Whittaker, J., Hall, E., Hodgson, K., & Leccese, J. (2018). Growing Food Connections through Planning: Lessons from the United States. In Integrating Food into Urban Planning. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and University College London (UCL) Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv513dv1.13
- Raja, S., & Whittaker, J. (2018). Community Food Infrastructure: A Vital Consideration for Planning Healthy Communities. In Beatley, T., Rainey, and Carla Jones. (Eds), Healthy Environments, Healing Spaces: Current Practice and Future Directions in Health and Design. University of Virginia Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/191/edited_volume/chapter/2247506
- Clark, J.K., Marquis, C., Raja, S. (2017). The Local Food Policy Audit: Spanning the Civic-Political Agrifood Divide. In Knezevic, I., Blay-Palmer, A., Levkoe, C., Mount, P., Nelson, E. (Eds), Nourishing Communities: From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative PathwaysSustainable. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57000-6_8
- Raja, S., Raj, S., Roberts, B. (2017). The US Experience in Planning for Community Food Systems: An Era of Advocacy, Awareness, and (Some) Learning. In Knezevic, I., Blay-Palmer, A., Levkoe, C., Mount, P., Nelson, E. (Eds), In Nourishing Communities: From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative PathwaysSustainable. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57000-6_4
- Ventura, S., Heinzel, W. M., Raja. S. (2010). Planning Analyst Module 3: Allocate Making Place-based Decisions. In Niemann, B., Moyer, D., Ventura, S., Chenoweth, R., and Miskowiak, D. (Eds), Citizen Planners: Shaping Communities with Spatial Tools. Redlands, California: ESRI Press. ISBN 9781589484146
- Raja, S. (2006). Kashmir. In Reveron, D.S., & Murer, J.S. (Eds), Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203957332
- Raja, S. (2006). Seeking Common Ground in Smart Growth and Food System Planning: Lessons from the Food for Growth Studio.” In Teaching Smart Growth at Colleges and Universities: A Set of Model Course Prospectuses. Washington, DC: US Environmental Planning Agency. https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014-03/documents/raja.pdf
- Raja, S. (2005). Site Value Taxation. In Caves, R. W. (Ed), Encyclopedia of the City (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203484234
Book Reviews
- Raja, Samina, Jill Clark, Julia Freedgood, and Kimberley Hodgson (Guest Editors). 2018. Special Issue on Local Government in Food Systems Work. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. 8 (Supplement 2), October 2018
- Raja, Samina, Kevin Morgan, and Enjoli Hall (Guest Editors). 2017 Special Issue on Planning for Equitable Urban and Regional Food Systems. Built Environment. 43 (3).
- Raja, Samina. 2013. “A Review of Sustainable Food Planning: Evolving Theory and Practice.” Journal of the American Planning Association 79(30):3-4.
Articles in Popular Press and Other Venues
- Raja, Samina and Robert Shibley. “Standing in Unity and Action: Black Lives Matter.” June 20, 2020.
- Raja, Samina, and Chunyuan Diao. 2016. “A Community-Led View of Urban Agriculture Policy Making.” Urban Agriculture Magazine 31.
- Raja, Samina, Femke Hoekstra, and Rene Veenhuizen. 2016. “Editorial. Giving Space to Use Urban Space: Community Involvement in Urban Planning and Policy Development to Strengthen Urban Food Systems.” Urban Agriculture Magazine 31.
- Raja, Samina. 2015. “Why all Cities should have a Department of Food.” The Conversation. April 3, 2015.
- Raja, Samina and Heather Wooten. 2010. “Food systems planning – an opportunity for planners in private practice.” Newsletter, Private Practice Division, American Planning Association.
- Raja, Samina. 2008. “Food for Thought” Final Word. UB Today.
- Raja, Samina. 2008. Section in an article titled “A question for the boss: What questions should employees ask themselves about the health of their workforce?” Impact: Improving Health for Population and Individuals. School of Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, Newsletter. April 2008.
- Breinlich, Angelika and Samina Raja. 2006. “Sometimes applesauce is about more than just apples.” Buffalo Rising, Online Magazine. November 2006.
- Raja, Samina. 2005b. “Food for Growth” Intersight: Journal of the School of Architecture and Planning, 8 (2005): 112-117.