One of the contemporary major problems is food security. In urban areas, particularly related to urbanization in developing countries, this problem has a clear impact to underprivileged inhabitants. Urban agriculture could be potentially re-raised as one of the answers. Future cities are set to be transformed into complex food production systems, becoming self- sufficient in raising plants and livestock. Sustainable and smart future cities in addition to energy efficiency need to be food-self-efficient. If we grow what we need near where we live, we will be more close to set the target of the "reduction of food-miles "where ever possible in our cities. In this era agriculture lands and farms have been replaced with factories and infrastructure in our cities. A sustainable use of resources in order to gain permanence and esthetic features can make the world be adapted to fit the human necessities. This thesis attempts to determine how a neighborhood and buildings can be self-productive by making productive public spaces and open spaces to create an ideal grow. Any distraction between urban and suburban realms could be a restriction rather than a functional division if the word is "garden". Urban open space gardens can shape new space that can be defined as the transmission zones between urban and suburban areas. Therefore, bringing the farms into and within the open and built up spaces, in the city can be a step to link between suburban and urban area. The reasons why people get involved in urban gardening initiatives are manifold. However, urban gardens do share a simple principle in that they provide people without a professional agricultural background the opportunity to undertake gardening and small scale agriculture experiences. Their small size and mix of various actors result in a profoundly different exchange of knowledge and skills, bringing about different patterns than within other agricultural and gardening networks. The potential of urban gardening and growing movements of local food production has the power to significantly benefits our cities and ourselves by a system of productive service which makes people to become active participants in producing their local goods for personal use or smaller business that can potentially scale-up. Urban garden address many aspects of wellbeing in the city by empowering city residents with the ability to grow their own food and medicine, creating active out door urban places, greening the city, improving air and water quality, increasing urban bio diversity and building community. In a smaller scale, it can be applied as idea of the community garden by creating an area which helps people eat well and feed people who are hungry. Gardens can help people learn about nutrition and the issues related to food security. This potential can be applied in high-risk neighborhood as well. The places which has a precedent of crime with low-crime families, unemployment and also adult with low education. These programs are a smart way to use food for connecting young people in those neighborhood by the purpose of cultivating communities in urban garden centers in cities. Thus, I have decided to work on an idea, Sustainable urban environments and the main idea is to inject an area semi-urban in the modern mechanized cities to make people feel more at home, more independent and less consumerist. It is somehow a way to cultivate the existing gardens, shape them in a useful way so that inhabitants can use them, or in other words, adapting the urban life that nowadays people are engaged to, to a somehow pre-urban life, to make people feel more practical and make them participate in their need production.
Uno dei maggiori problemi contemporanei è la sicurezza alimentare. Nelle aree urbane, particolarmente legate all'urbanizzazione nei paesi in via di sviluppo, questo problema ha un impatto evidente sugli abitanti svantaggiati. L'agricoltura urbana potrebbe essere potenzialmente controrilanciata come una delle risposte. Le città del futuro si tramuteranno in sistemi di produzione alimentare complessi, diventando autosufficienti nell'allevamento di piante e bestiame. Le città future sostenibili e intelligenti oltre all'efficienza energetica devono essere auto-efficienti per il cibo. Se cresciamo ciò di cui abbiamo bisogno vicino a dove viviamo, saremo più vicini a fissare l'obiettivo della "riduzione delle miglia alimentari" dove mai possibile nelle nostre città. In questa era agricola le terre e le fattorie sono state sostituite con fabbriche e infrastrutture nelle nostre città. Un uso sostenibile delle risorse al fine di ottenere permanenza e caratteristiche estetiche può rendere il mondo adatto alle necessità umane. Questa tesi tenta di determinare in che modo un quartiere e gli edifici possono essere autoproduttivi creando spazi pubblici produttivi e spazi aperti per creare una crescita ideale. Qualsiasi distrazione tra regni urbani e suburbani potrebbe essere una restrizione piuttosto che una divisione funzionale se la parola è "giardino". I giardini urbani open space possono dare forma a nuovi spazi che possono essere definiti come le zone di trasmissione tra aree urbane e suburbane. Pertanto, portare le fattorie dentro e dentro gli spazi aperti e costruiti, nella città può essere un passo per collegare l'area urbana e suburbana. I motivi per cui le persone vengono coinvolte in iniziative di giardinaggio urbano sono molteplici. Tuttavia, gli orti urbani condividono un semplice principio in quanto forniscono alle persone senza un background professionale agricolo l'opportunità di intraprendere esperienze di giardinaggio e di agricoltura su piccola scala. Le loro piccole dimensioni e il loro mix di attori diversi si traducono in uno scambio profondamente diverso di conoscenze e abilità, producendo modelli diversi rispetto ad altre reti agricole e di giardinaggio. Il potenziale del giardinaggio urbano e dei movimenti in crescita della produzione alimentare locale ha il potere di apportare benefici significativi alle nostre città e a noi stessi da un sistema di servizi produttivi che rende le persone partecipe attivamente alla produzione di beni locali per uso personale o di piccole dimensioni che possono potenzialmente scalare -su. L'orto urbano affronta molti aspetti del benessere in città, consentendo ai residenti della città la possibilità di coltivare il proprio cibo e medicine, creando luoghi urbani attivi all'aperto, rendendo più verde la città, migliorando la qualità dell'aria e dell'acqua, aumentando la biodiversità urbana e costruendo comunità. In scala ridotta, può essere applicato come idea del giardino comunitario creando un'area che aiuti le persone a mangiare bene e a nutrire le persone affamate. I giardini possono aiutare le persone a conoscere la nutrizione e le questioni relative alla sicurezza alimentare. Questo potenziale può essere applicato anche nei quartieri ad alto rischio. I luoghi che hanno un precedente di criminalità con famiglie a basso tasso di criminalità, disoccupazione e anche adulti con bassa istruzione. Questi programmi sono un modo intelligente di utilizzare il cibo per connettere i giovani in quelle zone allo scopo di coltivare comunità nei centri di giardini urbani delle città. Così, ho deciso di lavorare su un'idea, Ambienti urbani sostenibili e l'idea principale è di iniettare un'area semiurbana nelle moderne città meccanizzate per far sentire le persone più a loro agio, più indipendenti e meno consumistiche. È in qualche modo un modo per coltivare i giardini esistenti, modellarli in modo utile affinché gli abitanti possano usarli o, in altre parole, adattare la vita urbana a cui oggi le persone sono impegnate, a una vita in qualche modo pre-urbana, a fare le persone si sentono più pratiche e le fanno partecipare alla loro necessità di produzione.
The urban-rural continuum. Sustainable urban development and urban. The urban rural continuum-pre urban linkages
ZOHADI, NIKAN
2017/2018
Abstract
One of the contemporary major problems is food security. In urban areas, particularly related to urbanization in developing countries, this problem has a clear impact to underprivileged inhabitants. Urban agriculture could be potentially re-raised as one of the answers. Future cities are set to be transformed into complex food production systems, becoming self- sufficient in raising plants and livestock. Sustainable and smart future cities in addition to energy efficiency need to be food-self-efficient. If we grow what we need near where we live, we will be more close to set the target of the "reduction of food-miles "where ever possible in our cities. In this era agriculture lands and farms have been replaced with factories and infrastructure in our cities. A sustainable use of resources in order to gain permanence and esthetic features can make the world be adapted to fit the human necessities. This thesis attempts to determine how a neighborhood and buildings can be self-productive by making productive public spaces and open spaces to create an ideal grow. Any distraction between urban and suburban realms could be a restriction rather than a functional division if the word is "garden". Urban open space gardens can shape new space that can be defined as the transmission zones between urban and suburban areas. Therefore, bringing the farms into and within the open and built up spaces, in the city can be a step to link between suburban and urban area. The reasons why people get involved in urban gardening initiatives are manifold. However, urban gardens do share a simple principle in that they provide people without a professional agricultural background the opportunity to undertake gardening and small scale agriculture experiences. Their small size and mix of various actors result in a profoundly different exchange of knowledge and skills, bringing about different patterns than within other agricultural and gardening networks. The potential of urban gardening and growing movements of local food production has the power to significantly benefits our cities and ourselves by a system of productive service which makes people to become active participants in producing their local goods for personal use or smaller business that can potentially scale-up. Urban garden address many aspects of wellbeing in the city by empowering city residents with the ability to grow their own food and medicine, creating active out door urban places, greening the city, improving air and water quality, increasing urban bio diversity and building community. In a smaller scale, it can be applied as idea of the community garden by creating an area which helps people eat well and feed people who are hungry. Gardens can help people learn about nutrition and the issues related to food security. This potential can be applied in high-risk neighborhood as well. The places which has a precedent of crime with low-crime families, unemployment and also adult with low education. These programs are a smart way to use food for connecting young people in those neighborhood by the purpose of cultivating communities in urban garden centers in cities. Thus, I have decided to work on an idea, Sustainable urban environments and the main idea is to inject an area semi-urban in the modern mechanized cities to make people feel more at home, more independent and less consumerist. It is somehow a way to cultivate the existing gardens, shape them in a useful way so that inhabitants can use them, or in other words, adapting the urban life that nowadays people are engaged to, to a somehow pre-urban life, to make people feel more practical and make them participate in their need production.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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