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- FUI is supported by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation under the National Research Programme NRP 65 "New Urban Quality"
Idroponia
Idroponia in aulide
Matera. italy
A model in 1:1 scale hydroponic urban agriculture has been designed and built next to a house in the Sassi Area of Matera ( Basilicata, South Italy ). Hydroponics is a growing technique that uses …
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Urban capacity testing
Method for calculating neighborhood size and agricultural yields
1. Select Swiss city and plausible site for new construction
2. Calculate capacity of need for case-study area based upon daily population (residential and other)
3. Locate new neighborhood based upon general …
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Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes, Andre Viljoen, Joe Howe
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, …
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ParcFertile – Winning Entry for Urban Farm Park Competition in Bernex
ParcFertile, a submission by Verzone Woods Architects in Rougemont, Switzerland, has won the international competition to build an urban farm park on about 9 hectares of land in Bernex, Switzerland.
The farm features a variety of production types, including vegetables, …
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