Urban Agriculture and Urban Design

2011 ◽  
pp. 226-243
Author(s):  
Vikram Bhatt
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Agriculture

Editorial

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
Vikram Bhatt ◽  
Leila Marie Farah
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Food Production ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Fruit Trees ◽  
Household Economy ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Research Initiatives

The Millennium Development Goals and Agenda 21 objectives have generated international research initiatives in the emerging field of urban agriculture (UA); these efforts in productive growing and food production in the urban domain are gaining pre-eminence. UA was first coined in the 80s by agro-economists who recognized informal gardening practices in southern cities (Ba et all), but it no longer is uniquely associated to the South. UA includes a broad rage of activities: the cultivation of plants, medicinal and aromatic herbs, fruit trees, and the raising of animals, poultry and fish to support the household economy, the site's ecology, as well as social and cultural activities. Thus, UA cuts across multiple disciplines - such as development, urban geography, food security, city planning, landscape architecture, urban design, housing, farming and agronomy - all of which are touched upon by the academic and professional contributors in this special issue of Open House International.

Urban Agriculture, Food Justice, and Neoliberal Urbanization

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Glowa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Land Markets ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Land Politics

While urban agriculture has been immensely popular in the San Francisco region, highly competitive land markets increasingly compel landowners, both public and private, to put their properties to uses other than gardening. Gardeners have developed a variety of strategies to gain and maintain access to land. In so doing, they connect gardening to a “land politics” that asks who should have access to and decision-making power over particular properties as well as broader urban design. This chapter explores how gardeners influence the production of space and the institution of property.

scholarly journals Developing a Design-Led Approach for the Food-Energy-Water Nexus in Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanglin Yan ◽  
Rob Roggema
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Food Energy ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
Local Solutions

Urban communities are particularly vulnerable to the future demand for food, energy and water, and this vulnerability is further exacerbated by the onset of climate change at local. Solutions need to be found in urban spaces. This article based around urban design practice sees urban agriculture as a key facilitator of nexus thinking, needing water and energy to be productive. Working directly with Urban Living Labs, the project team will co-design new food futures through the moveable nexus, a participatory design support platform to mobilize natural and social resources by integrating multi-disciplinary knowledge and technology. The moveable nexus is co-developed incrementally through a series of design workshops moving around living labs with the engagement of stakeholders. The methodology and the platform will be shared outside the teams so that the knowledge can be mobilized locally and globally.

An Immanent Criticism of Urban Design in Montevideo

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Washington MORALES
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Applied Philosophy ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Philosophical Frameworks

The debate about the so called “excluding design” has been a focus for applied philosophy for several years. The structure of this debate is constituted by deontological and consequentialist’s applied ethics and as well as agonistic democratic approaches. This paper asks for the applicability of these points of view to the particular socio-political reality of Montevideo. Examining this reality closer, I hold that we cannot comprehend the recent aestheticization of the excluding design there through these contemporary philosophical frameworks. As an alternative philosophical procedure, I analyze the aestheticization of excluding design in Montevideo from Rahel Jaeggi’s immanent criticism. I hold that this process of aestheticization implies an ideological regressive “form of life”. And I also argue that the Uruguayan democracy is affected by this ideological regression. Nevertheless, because this aestheticization is not an exclusive Uruguayan phenomenon, this paper intends to open one direction in applied philosophy of urban design.

Book Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-389
Author(s):  
Eduardo Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
City Image ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Olympic Games

Evinç Doğan (2016). Image of Istanbul, Impact of ECoC 2010 on The City Image. London: Transnational Press London. [222 pp, RRP: £18.75, ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7]The idea of discovering or creating a form of uniqueness to differentiate a place from others is clearly attractive. In this regard, and in line with Ashworth (2009), three urban planning instruments are widely used throughout the world as a means of boosting a city’s image: (i) personality association - where places associate themselves with a named individual from history, literature, the arts, politics, entertainment, sport or even mythology; (ii) the visual qualities of buildings and urban design, which include flagship building, signature urban design and even signature districts and (iii) event hallmarking - where places organize events, usually cultural (e.g., European Capital of Culture, henceforth referred to as ECoC) or sporting (e.g., the Olympic Games), in order to obtain worldwide recognition. 

TREES IN URBAN DESIGN

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Urban
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design
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