In the years to come, future cities or smart cities will witness huge transformation into complex food generation systems, a move that would aim towards a more self-sustainable production of plants and livestock. Even though future cities would be termed more as “Food and Energy Efficient” cities, the need of the hour is certainly to build a more self-efficient method of producing food in the urban areas. Food production has an important impact on significant world's issues like climate change and pollutions. Food production occupied the major Lands that are used by human. Existing food production approaches can be divided into two categories: global-industrial method and local-organic system. A series of researches is needed understand the food growing patterns and land adoption practices in the peri-urban and urban areas, in order to improve the productivity and efficiency of the agriculture practices in both food production methods. A peri-urban and urban farming methodology was defined as a means of bringing food production within the open and built up spaces of the cities. The urban and peri-urban farming is seeking to find methods of plant growth and raising livestock in urban environments and a system for growing food in an efficient way. The first part of research presents the transforming historical changes that happened in the food productivity by city dwellers, and how the developments in the urban world is set to change the course of food cycle within the cities and reviews current approaches and food strategies and defines the meaning of urban food system and it’s relation with urban planning. Urban farming is becoming popular worldwide but people in developing and developed countries have different opinion about this phenomenon. Therefore the second part Research analyses peri-urban and urban farming methods by two surveys. One is the Piacenza, a case study that is located in a developed country and the other one is a comparison between Piacenza and Rafsanjan, a case study in a developing country. The Research attempts to determine the factors that influence people mind about urban and peri-urban farming and seeks a sustainable approach for shaping urban food system that ensures residents satisfaction and improvement in the quality of their life. The results revealed that economy, culture and cities’ structure and infrastructure have a direct relationship with an interest in agriculture and farming inside cities that should be considered in urban planning for making sustainable food system inside each city. This research attempts to determine how a sustainable food system can be shaped within the borders of urban areas and how a sustainable land use pattern can be defined for these areas, making cities self-productive and ideal for plant growth, while simultaneously enhancing city dweller’s lifestyle, So in the third part of research the possibility of creation an ideal semi commercial plant growth within cities and urban fringes through an experimental design project was tried. The southern part of Piacenza city was chosen as a case study, to find a sustainable approach in food production in this area. Besides investigating the role of sustainability in quality of life’s improvement, its environmental, economic and cultural effects on the society is also briefed. Peri-urban areas which surround the cities provide suitable links between the rural and urban areas and act as a transition zone between rural and urban areas. New land use pattern can shape new spaces in which urban and rural area will be served. These spaces will create new opportunities for semi commercial and community farming. Gathering new functions in relation with agricultural lands and cities will create a node that is shaped by public spaces, community farm and gardens, agricultural lands and open market and bring about an edible version of public spaces.
questa tesi si concentra sulla produzione di cibo all'interno delle città e rivedere diversi metodi di produzione alimentare. questo documento cerca di trovare il metodo sostenibile della produzione alimentare attraverso agricoltura urbana e peri-urbana.
Foodscape : planning sustainable urban food system. Advancing food cycle through urban and peri-urban agriculture : case study of Piacenza
HOSSEINI FARHANGI, SEYED MOHSEN
2014/2015
Abstract
In the years to come, future cities or smart cities will witness huge transformation into complex food generation systems, a move that would aim towards a more self-sustainable production of plants and livestock. Even though future cities would be termed more as “Food and Energy Efficient” cities, the need of the hour is certainly to build a more self-efficient method of producing food in the urban areas. Food production has an important impact on significant world's issues like climate change and pollutions. Food production occupied the major Lands that are used by human. Existing food production approaches can be divided into two categories: global-industrial method and local-organic system. A series of researches is needed understand the food growing patterns and land adoption practices in the peri-urban and urban areas, in order to improve the productivity and efficiency of the agriculture practices in both food production methods. A peri-urban and urban farming methodology was defined as a means of bringing food production within the open and built up spaces of the cities. The urban and peri-urban farming is seeking to find methods of plant growth and raising livestock in urban environments and a system for growing food in an efficient way. The first part of research presents the transforming historical changes that happened in the food productivity by city dwellers, and how the developments in the urban world is set to change the course of food cycle within the cities and reviews current approaches and food strategies and defines the meaning of urban food system and it’s relation with urban planning. Urban farming is becoming popular worldwide but people in developing and developed countries have different opinion about this phenomenon. Therefore the second part Research analyses peri-urban and urban farming methods by two surveys. One is the Piacenza, a case study that is located in a developed country and the other one is a comparison between Piacenza and Rafsanjan, a case study in a developing country. The Research attempts to determine the factors that influence people mind about urban and peri-urban farming and seeks a sustainable approach for shaping urban food system that ensures residents satisfaction and improvement in the quality of their life. The results revealed that economy, culture and cities’ structure and infrastructure have a direct relationship with an interest in agriculture and farming inside cities that should be considered in urban planning for making sustainable food system inside each city. This research attempts to determine how a sustainable food system can be shaped within the borders of urban areas and how a sustainable land use pattern can be defined for these areas, making cities self-productive and ideal for plant growth, while simultaneously enhancing city dweller’s lifestyle, So in the third part of research the possibility of creation an ideal semi commercial plant growth within cities and urban fringes through an experimental design project was tried. The southern part of Piacenza city was chosen as a case study, to find a sustainable approach in food production in this area. Besides investigating the role of sustainability in quality of life’s improvement, its environmental, economic and cultural effects on the society is also briefed. Peri-urban areas which surround the cities provide suitable links between the rural and urban areas and act as a transition zone between rural and urban areas. New land use pattern can shape new spaces in which urban and rural area will be served. These spaces will create new opportunities for semi commercial and community farming. Gathering new functions in relation with agricultural lands and cities will create a node that is shaped by public spaces, community farm and gardens, agricultural lands and open market and bring about an edible version of public spaces.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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