Cr-eat-ing City. Urban agriculture strategies for city resilience.

authored by

Emanuele Sommariva

supervised by

Mosè Ricci, Jörg Schröder

Abstract

Over the last decades, the term resilience has emerged in many disciplines. A significant one is that of agriculture, in both urban and peri-urban areas. If food systems organized the territories for ages, today’s modern agro-industries maximize production with little regard to the impacts on the environment. Not only but also, they cut the cities off the countryside, weakening the ecosystems they belong to. In light of this, the book addresses how localized food production in the form of urban agriculture may contribute to a climate-optimized smart city and support the re-development of public space.

External Organisation(s)

University of Genova

Type

Doctoral thesis

No. of pages

280

Publication date

01.02.2015

Publication status

Published

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Architecture, Urban Studies

Research Area (based on ÖFOS 2012)

Urban design, Urban planning

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities, SDG 2 - Zero Hunger, SDG 13 - Climate Action