Design points us beyond surface level understandings of urban agriculture's ecological, social, and public health benefits towards an integrated approach that can help create more democratic food and environmental systems. This course investigates how urban gardens and farms can be connected to larger transformations of social and material structures in our cities. Course themes include ecological, social, political, infrastructural, cultural, and educational design elements of urban agriculture projects. These concepts are contextualized through New York City's expansive and networked urban agriculture system, with discussions of corollary work in cities throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Students will engage with the complexity of urban agricultural systems in the city as they reflect on their own relationship to gardens, foods, and cities. The class activities combine field trips, lectures, studio-¬based workshops, and seminars. Both the fieldwork and applied research methods are then developed into creative works that support cultural diversity and social and environmental sustainability while addressing food and social justice aspects.