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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"urban-farming"”.
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Urban agriculture in Cape Town : an investigation into the history and impact of small-scale urban agriculture in the Cape Flats townships with a special focus on the social benefits of urban farming
Urban agriculture (UA), defined in this study as the cultivation of crops and the farming of poultry and livestock within city boundaries, is not a new phenomenon. There are noticeable gaps in the literature in respect of Cape Town: a lack of information on the history of the practice and a …
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Increasing Equitable Food Access Within Food Deserts in Urban Areas: A Case Study of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
… food access by studying the effects of a local Urban Farming Network on the local food buying system. Growing food in urban areas could solve a multitude of problems. This study was developed to evaluate whether the inclusion of an Urban Farming Network to a food desert will increase residents’ …
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Urban solarium : thermal performance in Boston
… lens of thermal performance in the context of urban housing in the city of Boston. Located in the historic brick row house neighborhood of the South End, the project utilizes brick for its inherent property of high heat capacity - a material's ability to store radiant energy and release it …
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Urban agriculture as a tool for neighborhood fabric repair in post-industrial Detroit
… through the lens of agriculture, asking how urban farming can be used to repair the urban fabric and increase access to food in two Detroit neighborhoods. To this end, I suggest a variety of urban agriculture uses that can be integrated into the life and form of the neighborhoods. I began my …
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Slow urban living apartments : transformation of five story walk-up apartments in Seoul
… units, mixed-use developments, practicing urban farming, or sharing lifestyles, these different trends of living intersects at the overlapping theme of experiential living. At the same time, Seoul is facing a final wave of 'retirement age' of the first generation of post-war urban housing …
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THE URBAN-AGRICULTURAL CITY AS A HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: A CASE STUDY OF PHILADELPHIA
… to better understand the city’s contemporary urban agriculture movement. More specifically, the study provides historical context to the contemporary application of racial justice practices within urban farming initiatives in Philadelphia by uncovering and critically analyzing key aspects of …
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Productive landscape: Turning vacant and underutilised spaces into urban agriculture, for social, economic and environmental benefits in the Two Rivers Urban Park (TRUP) site, Cape Town
… poverty and inequality. Due to the raising urban poverty and environmental uncertainties, the planning profession globally, has begun to engage with sustainable urban food system and policies. In the past urban agriculture was view as a rural activity hence it was not planned for in cities. …
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Productive spoils : retooling Detroit's waterfront
… proposal situates itself in opposition to the urban development laid on top of the land and its application in current form to a new, so called "green" recreational riverwalk, which still relies on the hard engineering that has destroyed Detroit's native wetlands. Instead, this thesis proposes …
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Community, Spirit, and Soul in the Lower Ninth Ward
… intersection of Claiborne and Forstall Street. Urban farming plots for the community are allocated along the rest of the neutral ground. To supplement these community spaces, design guidelines are provided for live/work commercial units along part of Claiborne, and housing guidelines are …
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Edible Praxis: Negotiating the Politics of Food and Culture in an Urban Food Desert
<p>This dissertation examines how residents in an urban food desert negotiate the promises of alternative food against the lived experience of trauma. By focusing on the particularities of this site, my research offers a deep cultural reading on the meaning, memory, and movement of food in a space …
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Aquaponics as a viable food production alternative in the Western Cape - the role of consumer and non-consumer perceptions
… and much population growth is taking place in urban areas. This urban population growth has been accompanied by increased pressure on the natural environment, food and water resources. Urbanisation leads to fierce contestation for land, resulting in reduced available land for agriculture, along …
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Coming Home to the Land: Natural Farming as Therapeutic Landscape Experience in Chengdu Plain, China
… research aims to explore the phenomenon of peri-urban farming, rural-urban integration, and community building that are crystallized in Chengdu Plain, China in recent years. Through the lens of therapeutic landscape experience, individual and community well-being is examined with these questions: …
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Design that Heals
It is the architect's responsibility to protect the public's health, safety, and welfare. Ironically, healthcare facilities, whose programs focus on those elements, often seem to fall short of those basic design standards. The evolution of healthcare practices has brought us to a stage of design …
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Building Structure: Underlying Architectonical Duties
When experiencing a building's interior or exterior conditions, one may be inclined to 'feel-out' its spatial and volumetric proportions, judge their appropriateness, its quality of formal conditions, its power, its clearness of the structure, and get a sense for the way its architecture was placed …
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Energy Models for Urban-Integrated Agriculture
… climatic, demographic and economic conditions, urban integrated agriculture (UIA) is a promising solution to increase urban resource use efficiency, improve local food supply and population well-being. In particular, Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) offers the potential to compete with …
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SIMPLE ORGANIC FERTILIZER AMENDMENTS FOR FARMING IN DEGRADED SOILS: EFFECTS ON PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
<p>The rapid loss of topsoil, biodiversity, and water quality across agricultural land in the United States and the industrialized world poses some of the most important risks to the future of global and domestic food security. Not only is arable land being lost at an unsustainable pace, but the …
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CITY IN A FARM: NURTURING URBAN FARMERS
“And it is He who causes gardens to grow, [both] trellised and untrellised, and palm trees and crops of different [kinds of] food and olives and pomegranates, similar and dissimilar. Eat of [each of] its fruit when it yields and give its due [zakah/charity] on the day of its harvest. And be not …
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Rethinking Dead Mall: Reconsidering an American vacant mall site as a seed for re-growth
The rapid urban development has impacted a great loss of natural landscape in the U.S in recent years. In the process of urbanization, the population has moved from the city centers to the edges of the Metropolitan or the newly developed suburbs as much as 62% until 2000. The annual conversion rate …