Adaptive Reuse for Urban Food Provision
Adaptive Reuse for Urban Food Provision

Author: Monika Szopińska-Mularz

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-07-12

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 3031052102

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This book analyses the adaptive reuse potential of inner-city modern movement car parking structures for controlled environment agriculture systems and the contribution of such a transformation to urban development. Modern movement garages built over the last 60 years are becoming redundant due to changing mobility trends and growing environmental awareness. Adaptive reuse is one of the scenarios that can reconcile these megastructures with contemporary urban needs. The novel function proposed in this study for multi-storey garages is controlled environment agriculture, which is a food production technique that is now developing in cities as an innovative business and a secondary food source. First, the study focuses on the theory of repurposing existing buildings for food production, which is then summarised in the form of a guide for the analysis of the adaptive reuse potential of inner-city car parking structures for controlled environment agriculture. Second, the guide is applied to two case studies, which allows exploring their potential to accommodate urban farming from planning, architectural, and environmental perspectives. The book aims to inspire and support decision-makers, architects, scholars and students when elaborating novel solutions for repurposing buildings for alternative functions. The publication encourages treating existing building stock as a resource that can become a stimulus for the new design process, which improves urban food provision.

Designing Urban Food Policies
Designing Urban Food Policies

Author: Caroline Brand

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-07-17

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 3030139581

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This Open Access book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the urban food system sustainability and how it can be tackled by local governments. Written by a collective of researchers, this book describes the existing conceptual frameworks for an analysis of urban food policies, at the crossroads of the concepts of food system and sustainable city. It provides a basis for identifying research questions related to urban local government initiatives in the North and South. It is the result of work carried out within Agropolis International within the framework of the Sustainable Urban Food Systems program and an action research carried out in support of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole for the construction of its agroecological and food policy.

Urban Farming Design in Los Angeles
Urban Farming Design in Los Angeles

Author: Pin-Han Su

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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"As the world population is constantly growing and will reach 9 billion people by 2050, the current danger to the world's food supply system creates a severe challenge. By 2050, more populations will be living in the cities and creating higher demand on food supply, but the farmable lands on our planet could be much less because of climate change and urbanization. Agricultural leaders have argued that cities will need to produce food internally to respond to demand by increasing population and to avoid harmful pollution and unaffordable food prices. Architecture, as the most influential element affecting our daily life, should react to this food crisis. Today, high-tech indoor farming systems have become more and more common and are easily accessible. It significantly increases the opportunity of growing food internally in the cities. This project will be proposing an architectural response to the food crisis and urban issues occurring now and in the future. The project will select proper indoor farming technology and its applications to implement on an abandoned hotel building. It will merge urban farms with support facilities for the local homeless population. The support will include general assistance, clinical treatment, farming education, and occupational therapy, reducing homelessness in this area. This project will predominantly focus on how farming and occupational therapy combine to improve sustainable urban living for both the general and homeless population in the Los Angeles metropolitan area."--Abstract.

How to Reprogram the City: A toolkit for Adaptive Reuse and Repurposing
How to Reprogram the City: A toolkit for Adaptive Reuse and Repurposing

Author: Scott Burnham

Publisher: VRMNTR

Published: 2019-12-21

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1945971029

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How to Reprogram the City is a 40-page self-guided collection of insights, examples, and exercises to help people discover the untapped potential in their own city. Based on dozens of workshops held around the world, this is the first time the Reprogramming the City methodology has been documented in workbook form. The toolkit provides people with the tools to address a pressing problem: the new reality facing cities is one of limited resources. Whether financial, spatial, or material, the content of cities is finite. Yet the context of that content – how we use the assets we already have – is where the opportunity exists to respond to increasing urban needs using limited resources. The dozens of workshops I have led in numerous cities have honed my abilities to get people to think outside the box – to move their thinking from “this is” to “this could” – and shown me the most effective way to provide them with the tools to improve life in their city using what they already have. It has been, and continues to be, a tremendous privilege to work with groups of people from numerous cities on repurposing urban objects to do more with the structures, surfaces and systems in their city. I realized though that a toolkit can reach far more people than I am able to. In short: it is time to open up the opportunities that urban resourcefulness can create. This toolkit is meant to serve as a companion to the Reprogramming the City book. The book is a global overview of how the urban landscape’s untapped potential is being utilized to improve life in cities using what already exists in new ways.

RE-USA
RE-USA

Author: Matteo Robiglio

Publisher: Jovis Verlag

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9783868594737

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Based on best-practice examples in American cities such as Detroit, New York, or Pittsburgh, this book shows successful cases of adaptive reuse that preserve the legacy of the industrial past while turning it into a key ingredient for urban regeneration. An aquaponics farm in a former meatpacking facility or a freight train railroad converted into a linear park: these are just two successful examples of the creative and effective reuse of abandoned industrial infrastructure. Culture, leisure, sport, research, education, design, services, production, housing, and even agriculture regenerate former factory sites and upgrade cities economically and culturally. Eight steps guide the way through the process of adaptive reuse from choosing an existing site to the vision, design, and funding, and finally their implementation. Professionals, activists, decision-makers, as well as entrepreneurs and committed citizens worldwide are therefore provided with a practical toolkit to discovering the unused potential of their city.