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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, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs to the city dwelling consumers. The revolutionary and innovative concepts put forth in this book have potential to shape the future of our cities quality of life within them.

Urban design is shown in practice through international case studies and the arguments presented are supported by quantified economic, environmental and social justifications.

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• Foreword(p. ix)
• Preface(p. xi)
• Acknowledgements(p. xii)
• Illustrations: credits and permissions(p. xiii)
• Contributors(p. xv)
• An introductory glossary(p. xviii)
• Part 1 Carrot and City: The Concept of CPULs(p. 1)
• 1 New space for old space: An urban vision(p. 3)
• Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: London in 2045(p. 4)
• Ecological Intensification(p. 7)
• London in 2045: Postscript(p. 8)
• 2 More space with less space: An urban design strategy(p. 10)
• What are CPULs?(p. 11)
• Why CPULs?(p. 12)
• Where will CPULs be?(p. 15)
• Part 2 Planning for CPULs: Urban Agriculture(p. 17)
• 3 More food with less space: Why bother?(p. 19)
• Food and urban design(p. 21)
• Why urban food?(p. 21)
• The environmental case for urban agriculture(p. 22)
• Organic urban agriculture(p. 25)
• Seasonal consumption(p. 26)
• Local growing and trading of crops(p. 29)
• 4 Urban agriculture and sustainable urban development(p. 32)
• Taking stock(p. 33)
• Energy and land-use(p. 33)
• Nutrient flows(p. 34)
• Relearning Urban Agriculture(p. 35)
• Cities as sustainable systems(p. 38)
• 5 Food Miles(p. 40)
• Introduction(p. 41)
• The food miles food chain(p. 41)
• Implications of the food miles chain(p. 44)
• Forces behind the food miles(p. 45)
• Solutions(p. 46)
• 6 Sandwell: A rich country and food for the poor(p. 48)
• 7 Plan it: An inclusive approach to environmentally sustainable planning(p. 52)
• 8 New cities with more life: Benefits and obstacles(p. 56)
• Socio-cultural benefits(p. 57)
• Economic benefits(p. 57)
• Health benefits(p. 59)
• Obstacles to urban agriculture(p. 60)
• 9 The economics of urban and peri-urban agriculture(p. 65)
• Introduction(p. 66)
• Micro-economic aspects(p. 68)
• Motives for UPA(p. 68)
• Supply(p. 69)
• Market entry, demand, and prices(p. 71)
• Macro-economic aspects(p. 72)
• Policy conclusions(p. 73)
• 10 Changing consumer behaviour: The role of farmers' markets(p. 78)
• 11 The social role of community farms and gardens in the city(p. 82)
• What is a community garden or a city farm?(p. 83)
• The benefits of a community garden or city farm project(p. 83)
• Policy on food production and sustainability(p. 85)
• Encouraging an existing or new project(p. 86)
• A vision for the future(p. 87)
• The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens(p. 87)
• Notes(p. 88)
• 12 Recycling systems at the urban scale(p. 89)
• Part 3 Planning for CPULs: Open Urban Space(p. 93)
• 13 Food in time: The history of English open urban space as a European example(p. 95)
• Where we live is where we grow(p. 97)
• Industrial revolution and suburban utopias: the divorce of cities and food production(p. 98)
• Urban food and conflict(p. 101)
• Urban rebuilding and urban food decline(p. 104)
• Revival and diversification of urban food growing(p. 105)
• Urban agriculture and sustainability(p. 106)
• 14 Food in space: CPULs amongst contemporary open urban space(p. 108)
• CPULs for European cities(p. 109)
• The open urban space atlas(p. 109)
• 15 Designs on the plot: The future for allotments in urban landscapes(p. 124)
• Allotments as (open) green space(p. 125)
• Allotments as urban landscape(p. 127)
• Allotments as negotiated communities(p. 129)
• The plot for designers(p. 130)
• Part 4 Planning for CPULs: International Experience(p. 133)
• 16 Urban agriculture in Havana: Opportunities for the future(p. 135)
• The challenge(p. 136)
• People's and government's response(p. 137)
• Rural agriculture and urban horticulture in Cuba(p. 138)
• Urban and peri-urban agriculture in Havana(p. 140)
• Havana: antecedents and current development(p. 140)
• The experience of the 1990s(p. 142)
• Conclusions(p. 143)
• References(p. 145)
• 17 Cuba: Laboratory for urban agriculture(p. 146)
• The spatial characteristics of Cuban urban agriculture(p. 147)
• Urban agriculture at the city scale(p. 149)
• The urban agriculture site(p. 153)
• Infrastructure and urban agriculture(p. 188)
• Urban agriculture in residential areas(p. 189)
• Organic urban agriculture(p. 190)
• 18 Urban and peri-urban agriculture in East and Southern Africa: Economic, planning and social dimensions(p. 192)
• Research Patterns since the 1970s: regional and subject focus(p. 193)
• Summary of the context of urban and peri-urban agriculture in africa in critical research areas(p. 195)
• Actors and institutions(p. 197)
• Conclusion(p. 198)
• 19 Moulsecoomb: Discovering a Micro-PUL(p. 200)
• 20 Allotments, plots and crops in Britain(p. 206)
• The organisation of allotments(p. 207)
• Practical production issues(p. 210)
• The economic implications of UPA(p. 214)
• Conclusions(p. 215)
• 21 Urban food growing: New landscapes, new thinking(p. 217)
• Food growing in urban areas(p. 218)
• The landscape character of urban food growing projects(p. 218)
• Conclusion(p. 220)
• 22 Permaculture and productive urban landscapes(p. 221)
• Permaculture(p. 222)
• 23 Utilitarian dreams: Examples from other countries(p. 229)
• Delft, The Netherlands(p. 230)
• Kathmandu Valley, Nepal(p. 230)
• Gaborone, Botswana(p. 231)
• Another model(p. 233)
• Part 5 Carrot and City: Practical Visioning(p. 237)
• 24 New space for old cities: Vision for landscape(p. 239)
• Size(p. 240)
• Sense of openness(p. 242)
• Local interactions(p. 244)
• Urban nature(p. 245)
• Persistent visual stimulation(p. 249)
• 25 More city with less space: Vision for lifestyle(p. 251)
• Variety of occupation and occupants(p. 252)
• Economic return from land-use(p. 253)
• Inner-city movement(p. 260)
• Environmental delight(p. 262)
• 26 More or less: Food for thought(p. 265)
• Contacts(p. 270)
• Index(p. 272)

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Joe Howe wishes to acknowledge the support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for funding research undertaken during 2000-2001, which was concerned with urban agriculture and land-use regulation in metropolitan areas of the UK. This research has fed into the book.
Katrin Bohn is an architect and senior lecturer at the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton, where she runs a design studio with Andre Viljoen. Within her urban design research, she has developed several architectural and landscape proposals, mostly centred around CPULs. Recent live projects relating to landscape and ecological building include the CUE Eco House in London (with the Low Energy Architecture Research Unit at London Metropolitan University) and proposals for community landscapes in Southwark, London.
André Viljoen is an architect and senior lecturer at the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton, where he is undergraduate architecture course leader and runs a design studio with Katrin Bohn. Previously he was Deputy Director of the Low Energy Architecture Research Unit, based in the School of Architecture and Spatial Design at London Metropolitan University. He has participated in a number of European research studies for low energy buildings and his work in urban agriculture and urban design stems from an interest in architecture and environmental issues. Recent research and practice has concentrated on the design implications of the integration of urban agriculture into urban landscape strategies.