Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes

Author : Andre Viljoen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136414320
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes written by Andre Viljoen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Andre Viljoen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136414312
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes written by Andre Viljoen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : André Viljoen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0750655437
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes written by André Viljoen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering book on an innovative approach to urban design.

Author : André Viljoen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317674510
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Nature Urban Agriculture written by André Viljoen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research This book is the long awaited sequel to "Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities". "Second Nature Urban Agriculture" updates and extends the authors' concept for introducing productive urban landscapes, including urban agriculture, into cities as essential elements of sustainable urban infrastructure. It reviews recent research and projects on the subject and presents concrete actions aimed at making urban agriculture happen. As pioneering thinkers in this area, the authors bring a unique overview to contemporary developments and have the experience to judge opportunities and challenges facing those who wish to create more equitable, resilient, desirable and beautiful cities.

Author : André Viljoen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Author : Craig Verzone
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035615675
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Urbanism written by Craig Verzone and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an increasing interest in quality of nutrition and health, urban food production has begun to occur inside the growing cities worldwide and risks to compete with other urban needs. The book introduces typologies, tools, evaluation methods and strategies, and shows the practical applications of the methods. Multiple projects illustrate solutions that augment quality via the insertion of food production entities into the urban realm.

Author : André Viljoen
Publisher : Wageningen Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9086861873
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable food planning: evolving theory and practice written by André Viljoen and published by Wageningen Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over half the world's population now deemed to be urbanised, cities are assuming a larger role in political debates about the security and sustainability of the global food system. Hence, planning for sustainable food production and consumption is becoming an increasingly important issue for planners, policymakers, designers, farmers, suppliers, activists, business and scientists alike. The rapid growth of the food planning movement owes much to the fact that food, because of its unique, multi-functional character, helps to bring people together from all walks of life. In the wider contexts of global climate change, resource depletion, a burgeoning world population, competing food production systems and diet-related public health concerns, new paradigms for urban and regional planning capable of supporting sustainable and equitable food systems are urgently needed. This book addresses this urgent need. By working at a range of scales and with a variety of practical and theoretical models, this book reviews and elaborates definitions of sustainable food systems, and begins to define ways of achieving them. To this end 4 different themes have been defined as entry-points into the discussion of 'sustainable food planning'. These are (1) urban agriculture, (2) integrating health, environment and society, (3) food in urban design and planning and (4) urban food governance.

Author : Christina Palassio
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1552452190
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edible City written by Christina Palassio and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays form a saucy picture of how Toronto sustains itself, from growing basil on balconies to four-star restaurants.

Author : Johannes Simon Cornelis Wiskerke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786763181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Achieving Sustainable Urban Agriculture written by Johannes Simon Cornelis Wiskerke and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection reviews key recent research on developing urban and per-urban agriculture. Chapters first discuss ways of building urban agriculture, from planning and business models to building social networks to support local supply chains. Other chapters survey developments in key technologies for urban agriculture, including rooftop systems and vertical farming. The book also assesses challenges and improvements in irrigation, waste management, composting/soil nutrition and pest management. The final group of chapters provides a series of case studies on urban farming of particular commodities, including horticultural produce, livestock and forestry.

Author : Gareth Doherty
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520285026
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradoxes of Green written by Gareth Doherty and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This highly innovative book is a multidisciplinary study of green and its significance from multiple perspectives: aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social. It is centered on the Kingdom of Bahrain, the smallest and greenest of the Arab states in the Persian Gulf, where green has a long and deep history appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous--and a radical contrast to the hot, hostile desert. As is the case with cities around the world, green is often celebrated as a counter to gray urban environments, yet green has not always been good for cities. To have the color green manifested in arid environments is often in direct conflict with 'green' from an environmental point of view; this paradox is at the heart of the book. Given the resources required to maintain green in arid areas, including cities, the provision of green often bears significant environmental costs. In arid environments such as Bahrain, this contradiction becomes extreme and even unsustainable. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Gareth Doherty explores the landscapes of Bahrain where green represents a plethora of implicit human values and lives in dialectical tension with other culturally and environmentally significant colors and hues. The book's six chapters focus on: Blue, Red, Date-palm Green, Grass Green, Beige, and White. Implicit in his book is the argument that concepts of color and object are mutually defining and thus a discussion about green becomes a discussion about the creation of space and place"--