A comprehensive overview of edible landscapescomplete 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
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Chapter 1 Food Cities: Ecology + Urban Agriculture 1
Lafayette Greens, Detroit 1
Bar Agricole, San Francisco 10
City Slicker Farms, Oakland 13
Viet Village, New Orleans 29
Big City Farms, Baltimore 38
Chapter 2 Planning Strategies for Urban Food Systems 41
Prairie Crossing, Grayslake 41
River Falls Eco Village, River Falls 51
Verge Sidewalk Garden, Charlottesville 75
Scent of Orange, Chongqing 80
Chapter 3 Vision, Synthesis, and Form 87
Villa Augustus, Dordrecht 87
Miller Creek Edible Garden and Outdoor Kitchen, San Rafael 104
2001 Market Street, San Francisco 109
Gary Comer Youth Center, Chicago 117
Chapter 4 Systems Integration and Connections 133
Medlock Ames Wine Tasting Room, Healdsburg 133
Our School at Blair Grocery, New Orleans 144
Incredible Edible House, prototype 156
Science Barge, Yonkers, New York 167
Banyan Street Manor, Honolulu 177
Chapter 5 Lifecycle Operations 181
Die Plantage, Munich 181
MUSC Urban Fram, Charleston 191
Riverpark Farm, Manhattan 202
VF Outdoors Campus, Alameda 209
Sacred Heart Organic Garden, Atherton 218
Slow Food Nation Victory Garden, San Francisco 224
Chapter 6 Outreach and Community 227
Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta 227
Urban Food Jungle, prototype 235
Expo 2015, Milan 239
Alemany Farms, San Francisco 250
P-Patch Gardens, Seattle 253
Glide Church, San Francisco 259
Gotham Greens, Brooklyn 261
Bibliography 267
Image credits 271
Index 273
