ABSTRACT

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.

part |16 pages

Carrot and City

chapter |7 pages

New Space for Old Space

An Urban Vision

chapter |7 pages

More Space with Less Space

An Urban Design Strategy

part |76 pages

Planning for CPULs

chapter |8 pages

Food Miles

chapter |4 pages

Sandwell

A Rich Country and Food for the Poor

chapter |4 pages

Plan it

An Inclusive Approach to Environmentally Sustainable Planning

chapter |9 pages

New Cities with More Life

Benefits and Obstacles

chapter |4 pages

Changing Consumer Behaviour

The Role of Farmers' Markets

part |39 pages

Planning for CPULs

chapter |16 pages

Food in Space

CPULs Amongst Contemporary Open Urban Space

chapter |8 pages

Designs on the Plot

The Future for Allotments in Urban Landscapes

part |103 pages

Planning for CPULs

chapter |11 pages

Urban Agriculture in Havana

Opportunities for the Future

chapter |46 pages

Cuba

Laboratory for Urban Agriculture

chapter |8 pages

Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in East and Southern Africa

Economic, Planning and Social Dimensions

chapter |6 pages

Moulsecoomb

Discovering a Micro-Pul

chapter |4 pages

Urban Food Growing

New Landscapes, New Thinking

chapter |7 pages

Utilitarian Dreams

Examples from Other Countries

part |33 pages

Carrot and City

chapter |12 pages

New Space for Old Cities

Vision for Landscape

chapter |14 pages

More City with Less Space

Vision for Lifestyle

chapter |5 pages

More or Less

Food for Thought