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Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities
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Edited By
Andre Viljoen, Andre Viljoen, Bohn and Viljoen Architects and Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Design, University of Brighton, UK.
Description
This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind
of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture
would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs to the city dwelling consumers. The revolutionary
and innovative concepts put forth in this book have potential to shape the future of our cities quality of life within them.
Urban
design is shown in practice through international case studies and the arguments presented are supported by quantified economic, environmental
and social justifications.
Audience
Architects and architecture students
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, PREFACE, FORWARD, AN INTRODUCTORY GLOSSARY, CARROT & CITY : THE CONCEPT OF CPULs, New Space for old Space : An urban
vision, More Space with less Space : An urban design strategy, PLANNING FOR CPULs, Urban Agriculture, More Food with less Space : Why
bother?, Urban Agriculture and sustainable urban development, Food Miles, Sandwell : A rich country and food for the poor, Plant-It,
New Cities with more Life : benefits and obstacles, The Economics of Urban Agriculture, Changing consumer behaviour: The role of Farmers
Markets, The social role of community farms and gardens in the city, Recycling systems at the urban scale, Open Urban Space, Food in
Time : The history of English open urban space as a European example, Food in Space : CPULs amongst contemporary open urban space, Urban
Space Atlas, Designs on the plot : The Future for Allotments in Urban Landscapes, International experience, Urban Agriculture in Havana,
Cuba : Laboratory for urban agriculture, Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in S&E Africa : Economic, Planning and Social dimensions, Moulsecoomb
: Discovering a Micro-PUL, Allotments, plots and crops in Britain, Urban food growing : New landscapes, new thinking, Permaculture and
productive urban landscapes, Utilitarian Dreams : Examples from other countries, CARROT & CITY : PRACTICAL VISIONING, New Space for
old Cities : Vision for landscape, More City with less Space : Vision for life style, More or less : Food for thought, APPENDIX, INDEX,
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Paperback, 304 pages, publication date: FEB-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-5543-9
ISBN-10: 0-7506-5543-7
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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