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Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research

This book is the long awaited sequel to "Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities" .

"Second Nature Urban Agriculture" updates and extends the authors' concept for introducing productive urban landscapes, including urban agriculture, into cities as essential elements of sustainable urban infrastructure. It reviews recent research and projects on the subject and presents concrete actions aimed at making urban agriculture happen.

As pioneering thinkers in this area, the authors bring a unique overview to contemporary developments and have the experience to judge opportunities and challenges facing those who wish to create more equitable, resilient, desirable and beautiful cities.

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• Foreword(p. viii)
• Preface(p. x)
• CPUL City Theory
• An Introduction(p. 1)
• Urban Agriculture on the Map
• Growth and challenges since 2005(p. 6)
• The CPUL City concept(p. 12)
• The new urban foodscape(p. 18)
• Urban Agriculture as ordinary urban practice(p. 24)
• Utilitarian Dreams
• Food growing in urban landscapes(p. 32)
• Productive life in the city(p. 40)
• The city in the fabric of eco-social interdependence(p. 48)
• Suenos Utilitarios(p. 54)
• Environmental Impact and Urban Agriculture Diversity(p. 60)
• Water, soil and air(p. 68)
• Economies of scale(p. 76)
• Bricks and nectar(p. 84)
• Green Theory in Practice and Urban Design
• Germany(p. 92)
• The United Kingdom(p. 100)
• Agential exchanges(p. 108)
• Shrinking cities and productive urban landscapes(p. 114)
• Laboratories for Urban Agriculture: The USA
• New York City(p. 122)
• Detroit(p. 130)
• Policies to support Urban Agriculture(p. 138)
• Community gardening in Berlin and New York(p. 146)
• CPUL City Actions
• An introduction(p. 155)
• Action IUC: The Inventory of Urban Capacity
• Laboratory for Urban Agriculture(p. 162)
• The Urban Agriculture Curtain(p. 166)
• London Thames Gateway(p. 172)
• Recording the unrecorded(p. 178)
• Action U+D: Bottom-Up and Top-Down
• The Urban Farming Project(p. 184)
• Spiel/Feld Marzahn(p. 190)
• And every city deserves a Sweet Water and a Growing Power!(p. 196)
• Urbaniahoeve(p. 200)
• Action VIS: Visualising Consequences
• Urban Nature Shoreditch(p. 206)
• The Continuous Picnic(p. 210)
• Urbane Agrikultur in Köln-Ehrenfeld(p. 216)
• Initials CPUL(p. 222)
• Action R: Researching for Change
• Unlocking Spaces(p. 228)
• The Edible Campus(p. 232)
• Growing Balconies(p. 236)
• The devil is in the detail(p. 240)
• Alternative food networks as drivers of a food transition(p. 244)
• The moment before action(p. 252)
• CPUL Repository
• An Introduction(p. 257)
• What Has Happened Since CPUL 2005?(p. 260)
• Graeme Sheriff(p. 261)
• Richard Wiltshire(p. 262)
• David Crouch(p. 263)
• Jorge Peña Diaz(p. 254)
• The CPUL Repository of references(p. 266)
• Notes on contributors(p. 287)
• Image credits(p. 292)
• Index(p. 293)
• Acknowledgements(p. 299)

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Katrin Bohn is an architect and guest professor at the Technical University of Berlin. For the past 12 years, she has also taught architecture and urban design, mainly as a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton. Together with André Viljoen, she runs Bohn&Viljoen Architects , a small architectural practice and environmental consultancy based in London. Bohn&Viljoen have taught, lectured, published and exhibited widely on the design concept of CPUL City (Continuous Productive Urban Landscape) which they contributed to the international urban design discourse in 2004. Katrin's projects on productive urban landscapes include feasibility and design studies as well as food growing installations and public events, mainly for UK and German clients.

André Viljoen is an architect and principal lecturer / academic program leader in architecture at the University of Brighton, as well as, with Katrin Bohn, contributing to the work of Bohn&Viljoen Architects . The publication, in 2005, of Bohn&Viljoen's book CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing urban agriculture for sustainable cities consolidated a body of research underpinning the case for urban agriculture as an essential element of sustainable urban infrastructure. This book and the associated design concept had a significant international impact, resulting in invitations to consult, exhibit and lecture widely. In 2012, André jointly edited the book Sustainable Food Planning: evolving theory and practice . This collection was the first of its kind to bring the disciplines of planning, design, public health and governance into dialogue to address the global challenge of food security.