Upcoming events
RIO+20 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development – Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture
2012-06-20 to 2012-06-222nd Symposium on Horticulture in Europe – Angers, France
2012-07-01 to 2012-07-04Critical geographies of urban agriculture: trajectories towards an alternative urbanism, Edinburgh, 3 – 5 July 2012
2012-07-03 to 2012-07-052012 Urban Agriculture Summit
2012-08-15 to 2012-08-18
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Aquaculture in a geodesic dome
“Ever since R. Buckminster Fuller popularized the design in the mid-20th century, there’s been something captivating about the geodesic dome. While the structure typically makes architecture lovers salivate, now it’s conquering the heart of another type of urbanist: the…
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Urban Agriculture Basel
Als gemeinnütziger Verein fördert das Urban AgriCulture Netz Basel die Erzeugung von Lebensmitteln, Kräutern, Blumen, Nutz- und Medizinalpflanzen durch die in der Stadt Basel und der Agglomeration lebenden Menschen. Dabei sieht sich der Verein den Zielen der lokalen, sozialen und…
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Food and the City, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.
The intricate interrelationship between urban context and food production, central to the current debate on sustainability, will be the focus of the 2012 Garden and Landscape Studies symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. It will explore the links between culture and cultivation,…
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Transforming Cities: How Food Systems Shape Cities, NYC
BioCities and the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University will debut their first seminar in an educational series entitled: Transforming Cities: How Food Systems Shape Cities. We will take an in-depth look at…
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2012 Urban Agriculture Summit
Around the world people are growing food in cities! From August 15 to 18, the 2012 Urban Agriculture Summit will bring together a diversity of people that are making it happen – design professionals, community groups, social housing advocates, tenants…
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RIO+20 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development – Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Food security covers availability, access, utilization…
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2nd Symposium on Horticulture in Europe – Angers, France
AGROCAMPUS OUEST organise, du 1er au 5 juillet 2012, le 2e Symposium européen d’horticulture (SHE 2012) sous l’égide de l’ISHS (International Society for Horticultural Science) et des sociétés nationales d’horticulture membres de l’ISHS et en partenariat avec l’Inra, le…
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Eco-Cities and Ecological Engineering – IEES/ZHAW Symposium 2012, Wädenswil, Switzerland
“Our world is approaching a phase where several resources will become scarce at the same time: energy, nutrients, water availability, space… The wealth and well-being of coming generations will depend on us being able to adapt our economies to the…
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Critical geographies of urban agriculture: trajectories towards an alternative urbanism, Edinburgh, 3 – 5 July 2012
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 3 – 5 July 2012
“Outline: Urban agriculture (UA) is a practice that has recently gained the attention of the media, local government and community groups in the cities of the Global…
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International Conference on Multifunctional Agriculture and Urban-Rural Relations, The Netherlands, 1-4 April
“Research on multifunctional agriculture and changing urban-rural relations is highly fragmented, both disciplinarily and geographically, which is due to the multiplicity of activities, the multi-scalar character of multifunctionality and the geographical contextuality of expressions of multifunctional agriculture. Hence, this conference aims…
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The Potential for Urban Agriculture in New York City
“Developing agricultural capacity within or close to urban areas like New York City has the potential to reduce food transportation costs and environmental impacts, provide economic development opportunities, and reduce disparities in healthful access that have contributed to epidemic rates of…
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Hantz Farms Detroit
Hantz Farms Detroit aims to create the world’s largest urban farm. As Detroits population and economy have declined over the years, much of the city is vacant or dispersed across the city limits. John Hantz sees urban agriculture as…
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Hanging Gardens of Barcelona
The Hanging Gardens of Barcelona is a studio project by Nicola Placella and Magnus Svensson of The Why Project, headed by Winy Maas. The project explores the scale at which urban agriculture would need to occur to make…
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Greenwich Village School GELL
In 2003, New York’s Public School 41 established a garden program through the collaboration of parents and teachers funding by local businesses. The school grows seasonal veggies and herbs, fruit trees, and plants native to the region. Most of…
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Gotham Greens
Gotham Greens is a professional hydroponic farm sited on the roof of an former bowling alley. The operation is housed in a $2 million greenhouse. The farm uses about 700 gallons of water a day, recycling much of it…
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Eethuis / Eathouse
The Eathouse is a scaffolding structure which accommodates plastic crates which are planted with fruits and vegetables. The scaffolding forms a “house” shape, and the planted modular crates become the walls and ceiling. Because the crates are modular and…
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Five Borough Farm
Five Borough Farm is a project headed by The Design Trust for Public Space which seeks to develop strategies to support food urbanism across New York city. Working with the growers themselves, group creates “a shared framework and tools…
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CPULs: Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes
“Continuous Productive Urban Landscape (CPUL) is a design concept advocating the coherent introduction of interlinked productive landscapes into cities as an essential element of sustainable urban infrastructure. Central to the CPUL concept is the creation of multi-functional open urban…
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Urban Agriculture Casablanca
“The project analyses to what extent Urban Agriculture can make a relevant contribution to climate-optimised and sustainable urban development as an integrative factor in urban growth centres. Urban Agriculture is understood as every form of informal or formal agricultural…
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AESOP (CARDIFF) 3RD SUSTAINABLE FOOD PLANNING CONFERENCE
“Working at a range of scales and with a variety of practical and theoretical models, we will review and elaborate definitions of sustainable food systems, and begin to define ways of achieving them. To this end 4 different themes have…
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Urban Agriculture Business Forum, Seattle
“Do you wonder about permitting and zoning issues that affect urban food production? Do you know that there are business services available to help “grow” your business? Ever wonder how other small sectors have developed? Connect with representatives from the Office of Economic…
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Farming Concrete
Farming Concrete is a research endeavor that seeks to quantify community gardens in New York City. By measuring the area of the land being farmed, the amount of food being grown, and a economic value of that food, they begin…
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Hyperlocavore
Hyperlocavore, A Yardsharing Community, connects people who have space to grow with people who are willing to do the growing. A website allows user to search for either space or a willing garden in their area. Establishing this connection…
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Tenth Acre Farms
The Tenth Acre farm started in a backyard, where large raised beds were constructed. The farm soon expanded onto an unused basketball court at a nearby church. The farmers use a CSA and market stall to disribute their produce.…
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Strathcona and Cottonwood Community Gardens
Strathcona Gardens is an organic community garden run by the Stathcona Community Gardeners Society. Members of the community can acquire a plot by paying a small fee and coming to required “work parties”. The garden uses a rainwater cistern,…
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Sky Vegetables
Sky Vegetables is an entreprenureal business venture which constructs a farm on rooftops of 10,000 sqft or more. They offer a 12-month, closed system growing plan accomplished through hydroponic greenhouses, composting, wind turbines, and solar panels.
This company…
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Edible Estates #10
In Edible Estates #10, Fritz Haeg has organized a garden on the rooftop of the American Academy in Rome. Using containers sourced from the the building (plastic bottles, paper cartons, cardboard boxes, etc.), and a worm bin which turns…
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Mithun’s Center for Urban Agriculture
Conceived as a “living building” which draws resources from its immediate environment to become self-sufficient, the proposal for the Center for Urban Agriculture features grey and rain water collection systems, photovoltaic cells, vegetable gardens, greehhouses and a chicken farm.…
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Lufa Prototype Farm
Lufa Farms responds to a desire to have fresh food that does not require a long journey and multiple steps between its growth and consumption in Montreal. The idea is a prototype, to be replicated, however it has started…
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Science Barge
The Science Barge is a closed system urban farm located on a barge docked in Yonkers, NY. The plants are grown in dense hydroponic systems where collected rainwater and purified river water are recycled through the system. The barge…
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PS 216 Edible Schoolyard
The design is a series of interlinked sustainable systems that produce energy and heat, collect rainwater, process compost and sort waste with an off-grid infrastructure. A mobile greenhouse roof covers 1600 square feet of ground in the winter and…
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Pasona 02
Pasona 02 is a 1 sq. km. farm in the basement of a 27-storey in Tokyo’s business district. Growing more than 100 plants using hydroponics, climate control, and flourescent light reflected by the silver foil paper walls, the farm…
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Greensgrow Farms
Encompassing a entire city block in North Philadelphia’s gridded urban layout, Greensgrow Farm is situated on the former site of a galvanized steel plant which is designated as a brownfield site by the United States Environmental Protect Agency. The…
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Farm on Wheels
A competition sponsored by GOOD Magazine to reinvent the farmer’s market prompted Mia Lehrer+Associates to propose a truck that deliveries fresh produce directly to communities, a la an ice cream truck.
Farm on Wheels is a bit of a…
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Europe In Bloom
Europe in bloom is 5000 plants arrange into a map of Europe on a scaffolding structure attached to a building façade in Copenhagen. Felt ‘pockets’ are attached to the metal scaffold, and plants are inserted.
The plants selected for…
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Edible Estates #8 – Lenape Edible Estate
Part of the Edible Estates project by Fritz Haeg, this garden is described as “a demonstration garden, part experimental laboratory and part educational display”. Haeg and his partners use edible native plants to remind visitors of a geographic history…
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Edible City
The documentary film, Edible City, explores issues and meanings surrounding food urbanism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Food security, self-sufficiency, energy costs and the development of a community around the food urbanism movement is explored.
This film…
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EcoBox
“ECObox is a temporary garden constructed out of recycled materials”. ECObox allows new, temporary programs in under-used urban spaces. They “aim to preserve urban ‘biodiversity’ by encouraging the co-existence of a wide range of life-styles and living practices.”
Showcasing…
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Earthworks Farm
Earthworks Urban Farm is an extension of Capuchin Soup Kitchen, a Catholic soup kitchen serving the area’s poor. The seven farms (encompassing 20 lots) are spread over 2 blocks. A 30-hive apiary is also run on site. Honey and…
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Eagle Street Rooftop Farms
Eagle Street Rooftop Farm is a large rooftop garden in a dense urban area. The bulding owners worked with Goode Green to develop and install the base greenroof. Crops are planted in 10 – 15cm of soil and is…
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Cuisine Urbaine
In Cuisine Urbaine, a collaboration of artists and designers developed a small mobile kitchen which resembled a vending cart. The project “aimed to act as urban activator and catalyst of encounters, exchanges, actions, dialogues and shared spaces and temporalities…
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Food Urbanism Sessions at the IFLA 2011 Congress in Zurich
Food Urbanism will be one of the dozen topics being discussed at this year’s annual International Federation of Landscape Architects congress in Zurich. On Monday, June 27, two sessions will feature presentations from eight speakers currently preparing work and…
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Central Park, Matsu
The island of Matsu is strictly controlled by the Chinese government. However, the national government gave the local government the ability to create their own central “square”. The town and citizens decided to create a town garden that occupies…
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Ecocity World Summit in Montreal
“We are delighted to invite you to attend the Ecocity World Summit 2011, to be held August 22-26 in Montréal. What are those at the forefront of Ecocity thought, practice, policy and implementation saying about the issues that are…
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Casa Huerta
Casa Huerta is a group of young professionals from various design fields working to address the health and infrastructural needs of the rapidly urbanizing cities in Brazil. By working with agronomists, the group has developed prototypes of “house and…
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Plantages de Bourdonnette
The Bourdonnete neighborhood is using buffer space between housing and a highway for recreation and agriculture, reclaiming public space for the 1700 inhabitants. Family garden plots exist for 42 families.
The Municipality of Lausanne constructed upgraded residential buildings and…
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Resilience in Urban Design – 4th International Urban Design Conference in Amsterdam
“The theme for the 4th International Urban Design Conference is Resilience in Urban Design through measures such as supported interconnectivity, appropriate densification within urban footprints, multiple transit modes and walkability, socially inclusive design, economic resilience, and adaptive built environments. Resilience in Urban…
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Curran House
Curran House is a high density affordable housing structure in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. There is a garden on the first floor entrance which leads to a courtyard in the back, serving as a “decompression” garden as one moves…
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City Slicker Farms
City Slicker Farms is a network of six farms that operate to provide greater food security by distributing fresh produce on a donation-only basis to the community. The largest of the farms is 1.4 acres and houses farm beds,…
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n55 City Farming Plant Modules Manual
The City farming plant module is an inexpensive method to create floating plant modules using off the shelf products. Using a semi-permeable clothe, soil and a soaker hose, modular planting units can be arranged however is desired, as long…
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