The demands placed on systemic resilience make today’s requirements on sustainable urban development more complex. If peri-urban agricultural practices are constantly under threat of being absorbed in speculative land consumption processes and a qualitative tactic for urban development can be created from these, then new synergies between urban and rural contexts should be rethought. The paper addresses the question of how a new green infrastructure can be integrated into an existing and complex city. Urban agriculture is one emerging integrative factor for city resilience and is used as a key theme to re-think new potentials of open space systems. In this sense the principle of multi-functionality applied to urban landscapes can become a tactic to react the specific challenges of demands of the contemporary city, in terms of living space, services, food.
Urban Agriculture: new strategies for city resilience
Sommariva E.
2013-01-01
Abstract
The demands placed on systemic resilience make today’s requirements on sustainable urban development more complex. If peri-urban agricultural practices are constantly under threat of being absorbed in speculative land consumption processes and a qualitative tactic for urban development can be created from these, then new synergies between urban and rural contexts should be rethought. The paper addresses the question of how a new green infrastructure can be integrated into an existing and complex city. Urban agriculture is one emerging integrative factor for city resilience and is used as a key theme to re-think new potentials of open space systems. In this sense the principle of multi-functionality applied to urban landscapes can become a tactic to react the specific challenges of demands of the contemporary city, in terms of living space, services, food.
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