Designing Urban Agriculture: A Complete Guide to the Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance and Management of Edible Landscapes
April Philips
Language: English
Pages: 290
ISBN: 2:00244646
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A comprehensive overview of edible landscapes--complete with more than 300 full-color photos and illustrations
"Designing Urban Agriculture" is about the intersection of ecology, design, and community. Showcasing projects and designers from around the world who are forging new paths to the sustainable city through urban agriculture landscapes, it creates a dialogue on the ways to invite food back into the city and pave a path to healthier communities and environments.
This full-color guide begins with a foundation of ecological principles and the idea that the food shed is part of a city's urban systems network. It outlines a design process based on systems thinking and developed for a lifecycle or regenerative-based approach. It also presents strategies, tools, and guidelines that enable informed decisions on planning, designing, budgeting, constructing, maintaining, marketing, and increasing the sustainability of this re-invented cityscape. Case studies demonstrate the environmental, economic, and social value of these landscapes and reveal paths to a greener and healthier urban environment.
This unique and indispensable guide:
* Details how to plan, design, fund, construct, and leverage the sustainability aspects of the edible landscape typology
* Covers over a dozen typologies including community gardens, urban farms, edible estates, green roofs and vertical walls, edible school yards, seed to table, food landscapes within parks, plazas, streetscapes and green infrastructure systems and more
* Explains how to design regenerative edible landscapes that benefit both community and ecology and explores the connections between food, policy, and planning that promote viable food shed systems for more resilient communities
* Examines the integration of management, maintenance, and operations issues
* Reveals how to create a business model enterprise that addresses a lifecycle approach
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All-organic urban garden is highly productive as well. Over 200 species of plants are grown on site, including vegetables, berries, herbs, and even kiwi vines on an overhead trellis. An “orchard meadow” of native fruit trees and an heirloom apple orchard line the site’s northern edge. Currently, the garden is run by a garden manager from Compuserve, and worked by volunteers, many of whom are Compuserve employees. All food is donated to downtown Detroit’s local food banks, with the volunteers.
Break down the evaluation of typologies for urban agriculture. One way is through the evaluation of the participants (Figure 3.28) and how this exercise may uncover a potential strategy that could be utilized in the project’s development phases. One of the first issues to understand is how identifying the project participants upfront helps to set up the communication systems framework as well as assisting in the providing of valuable information on the community’s local and regional resources.
Portion of what they grow to a food pantry or community organization that then redistributes the produce to agencies. ■ Restaurant seed to table/farm to table landscapes—These urban agricultural landscapes are as small as raised herbed beds outside a restaurant that is to be used by the restaurant chef in menu enhancement for food and cocktails such as Bar Agricole, in San Francisco, or as large as having a sizable portion of land adjacent to the restaurant and in other neighborhood locations.
School’s farmer’s market activities, and 16-year-old Sam has taken charge of their fledgling mushroom business. The whole community becomes engaged stakeholders who are vested in the health and well-being of all (Figure 4.15). Figure 4.15 Community members help to build new planters. Local Codes and Policies Research of local codes, guidelines, and policies that affect urban agriculture decision making should continue to be a key step in this part of the design process. Urban agriculture.
Implementation stages. Systems coordination with multidisciplinary design teams and the project stakeholder groups such as neighborhood and community groups, nonprofits, school districts, city departments, or even for-profit enterprises will vary in terms of the organization, but all must begin with setting up a clear channel of communication. It is important for everyone involved to feel informed and feel they are part of the process. Building a simple feedback loop into the communication.