Goals and persistence of sustainability experiments in divergent urban contexts: urban agriculture and a geodemographic classification in London

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Irene Håkansson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Geodemographic Classification

scholarly journals Wellington's Lost Streams: ecosystem regeneration supporting urban agriculture using architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas Westend
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Symbiotic Relationships ◽  
Ecosystem Regeneration ◽  
Active Design ◽  
Urban Contexts

<p>Wellington's piped streams and harbour are both heavily polluted by land-based activities. Riparian zones around urban streams are almost non-existent, and native ecosystems are suffering or have been completely removed. These issues are to be engaged through architectural design focusing on ecosystem regeneration, cross-programmed with public infrastructure, and urban agriculture. Natural habitat in Aotearoa has dramatically diminished since European colonisation and continues to suffer significantly from the expansion of the built environment and farmland. The ideas that this design-based research explores is the incorporation of living-systems to aid in regeneration of native species and habitat, and prevent water pollution within urban contexts. The addition of permaculture practices will also be explored for its role in supporting civic life alongside public interaction through socially active design. Through these ideas, the goal is to create a network of architectural interventions that define a model of living which is regenerative to the environment. This would work towards people and nature coexisting in symbiotic relationships within urban centres.</p>

scholarly journals Scoping Out Elements of Sociocultural Adaptation in European Urban Agriculture

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Cavicchi ◽  
Atle Wehn Hegnes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Behavioral Biology ◽  
Sociocultural Adaptation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Urban Contexts

This paper explores and sheds light on the elements, complexity, and dynamics of sociocultural adaptation to innovation and climate change in European Urban Agriculture. We use a scoping-exploratory review to search and unveil elements of sociocultural adaptation (SCA) in the existing literature on European urban agriculture. We categorize these elements into three main categories. This categorization can inform and be further explored, operationalized, and developed in new case-study-based research and serve as a starting point to better understand social adaptation to innovation and climate change in urban contexts, and beyond. Key results draw attention to (a) socio-technical and socio-ecological innovations as critical to sociocultural adaptation to innovation and climate change (b) some elements of SCA identified through the scoping review seem more central than others for the adaption process (c) we are left with the question of whether we need to bridge social science with biology sciences, such as human behavioral biology and neurobiology to find the answer to deeper questions about SCA.

scholarly journals Wellington's Lost Streams: ecosystem regeneration supporting urban agriculture using architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas Westend
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Symbiotic Relationships ◽  
Ecosystem Regeneration ◽  
Active Design ◽  
Urban Contexts

<p>Wellington's piped streams and harbour are both heavily polluted by land-based activities. Riparian zones around urban streams are almost non-existent, and native ecosystems are suffering or have been completely removed. These issues are to be engaged through architectural design focusing on ecosystem regeneration, cross-programmed with public infrastructure, and urban agriculture. Natural habitat in Aotearoa has dramatically diminished since European colonisation and continues to suffer significantly from the expansion of the built environment and farmland. The ideas that this design-based research explores is the incorporation of living-systems to aid in regeneration of native species and habitat, and prevent water pollution within urban contexts. The addition of permaculture practices will also be explored for its role in supporting civic life alongside public interaction through socially active design. Through these ideas, the goal is to create a network of architectural interventions that define a model of living which is regenerative to the environment. This would work towards people and nature coexisting in symbiotic relationships within urban centres.</p>

Gardening as More than Urban Agriculture: Perspectives from Smaller Midwestern Cities on Urban Gardening Policies and Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Christopher Strunk ◽  
Ursula Lang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Vacant Lots ◽  
Urban Gardening ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Policies And Practices

For the most part, research and policymaking on urban gardening have focused on community gardens, whether in parks, vacant lots, or other public land. This emphasis, while important for many Midwestern cities, can obscure the significance of privately owned land such as front yard and back yard and their crucial connections with gardening on public land. In this case study, we examine how policies and practices related to gardening and the management of green space in two Midwestern cities exceed narrow visions of urban agriculture. The article explores the cultivation of vacant lot gardens and private yards as two modes of property in similar Midwestern contexts and argues that the management of green space is about more than urban agriculture. Instead, we show how urban gardening occurs across public/private property distinctions and involves a broader set of actors than those typically included in sustainability policies. Gardening also provides a key set of connections through which neighbors understand and practice sustainability in Midwestern cities.

Evaluation of urban encroachment on farmland: a threat to urban agriculture in Peshawar City District, Pakistan

Erdkunde ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Samiullah ◽  
Mohammad Aslam Khan ◽  
Atta-Ur Rahman ◽  
Shakeel Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
City District

Mechanisms of Green Development of Urban Agricultural Production in a Large Industrial City

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 823-829
Author(s):  
E. V. Malysh
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Green Development

A city’s potential for food self-sufficiency is expected to increase through the distribution of innovative, high-tech, green agricultural practices of producing food in an urban environment, which can improve the city’s food security due to increased food accessibility in terms of quantity and quality. Aim. Based on the systematization of theoretical approaches and analysis of institutional aspects, the study aims to propose ways to strengthen the city’s food security by improving food supply in urban areas, increasing the socio-economic and environmental sustainability of urban food systems, and changing the diet of urban residents.Tasks. The authors propose methods for the development of urban agricultural production in a large industrial city based on the principles of green economy and outline the range of strategic urban activities aimed at implementing green agricultural production technologies associated with the formation and development of the culture of modern urban agricultural production.Methods. This study uses general scientific methods of cognition to examine the specificity of objectives of strengthening a city’s food security by improving the quality of food supply to the population. Methods of comparison, systems analysis, systematization of information, and the monographic method are also applied.Results. A strategic project for the development of urban agricultural systems through the implementation and green development of advanced urban agricultural technologies is described. Green development mechanisms will create conditions for the city’s self-sufficiency in terms of organic and safe products, functioning of short supply chains, and green urban agriculture.Conclusions. Managing the growth of urban agriculture will promote the use of highly effective, easily controlled, resource-efficient, eco-friendly, weather- and season-independent, multi-format urban agricultural technologies. The study describes actions aimed at creating conditions for stabilizing a city’s high-quality food self-sufficiency with allowance for the growing differentiation of citizen needs.

Biosolids Products for Urban Agriculture

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 1065-1069
Author(s):  
Sally Brown ◽  
Kristen McIvor ◽  
Dan Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture
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