Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes (CPULs) started to develop in London around 2005. Forty years later they were everywhere, having reached a maturity that enables us to study their success in relation to the very initial design intention. When first mentioned around the year 2000, there was no precedent for CPULs […]
Category: LANDSCAPES
AN INTRODUCTORY GLOSSARY
LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCEPTS Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes (CPULs, pronounced See Pulls) are • the theme of this book, and do not yet exist in cities. • a coherently planned and designed combination of Continuous Landscape and Productive Urban Landscape. • open urban landscape. • productive in economical and socio-cultural and environmental terms. • placed […]
CONTRIBUTORS
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 […]
the future shape of cities
This book is intended to contribute to the ongoing debate about the future shape of cities. Supported by emerging international research, it presents a vision for integrating Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes (CPULs) into existing and future cities. CPULs are urban spaces combining agricultural and other landscape elements within a strategy of continuous, open space linkages. […]
DESIGNING URBAN AGRICULTURE FOR. SUSTAINABLE CITIES
With a vision and a strategy the 21st century city will be green, a healthy place for all and will generate zero net pollution. This book offers a vision and a strategy. Productive urban landscapes have two huge challenges to address: CO2 emissions are projected to increase by two-thirds in the next 20 years, and […]