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Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen SIZE Figure 24.1 contrasts the size of a nineteenth century London park with proposals for a modest CPUL intervention. It is not the size of an individual urban agriculture site that determines its success as a Productive Urban Landscape. Size will be significant in determining the yield and hence the […]

In the previous examples specific parcels of land have been set aside for urban agriculture. An alter­native strategy has been developed in Tanzania and Bulgaria, where a less specific categorisation or zoning is applied. In each case it has been pro­posed that as one moves away from the urban cen­tre, the potential for including urban […]

Some similarities can be identified between policies in Delft and development guidelines introduced in ] Urban agriculture reserve areas ] Urban development areas ] Buildings – Roads Figure 23.2 Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. An extensive planning exercise undertaken for the Madhyapur Thimi Municipality, located in the Kathmandu Valley, has defined a number of urban agricultural reserve […]

Andre Viljoen If Cuba can be considered a laboratory for the wide scale introduction of urban agriculture, it is not alone in planning for urban agriculture. Examples can be found in Asia, Africa and Europe. Although the conditions in each location are different, a num­ber of common benefits can be identified. DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS The […]

Graeme Sherriff Permaculture is all about solutions for sustainable living. It is an approach and methodology with a strong scientific basis and ethical justification, and it is already strongly represented in local food, Agenda 21 and Green political circles. This chapter looks at permaculture and its relevance to urban agriculture. It hinges on two questions: […]

Responsibility for the planning and management of urban landscape falls under several different organ­isational remits. These include: • local authority planning departments – a land – use remit. • local authority or private sector landscape architects and urban designers – a design remit. • local authority parks or landscape maintenance departments – a management remit. […]

Spaces which accommodate urban food growing projects take on many different forms. They include the allotments of middle England, the rooftop gar­dens in Russia, and the Cuban vegetable plots. They may be located on large tracts of open space where, for example, one can find allotments and community orchards, they may be one component of […]

Simon Michaels FOOD GROWING IN URBAN AREAS Urban areas, especially in the UK, are typified by their organic growth which has resulted in a diverse patchwork of public and private open spaces. The design and management of these spaces depends on many factors. Whilst many areas have been designed and continued to be managed in […]

It has to be recognised that urban agricultural production is undertaken in a different way from that on farms (Smit et al., 1996), so that standard, accepted indicators of profitability are frequently not appropriate. Whilst British allotment production was traditionally a means of providing food for families on minimal incomes (Crouch and Ward, 1988) it […]

The possibility of UPA production presenting a hazard to natural waters depends upon the kind of management, and also the local ‘environmental vulnerability,’ of natural waters. For example, significant areas where an economically major aquifer is overlain by soils of high or intermediate permeability occurs within both Greater London (NRA, 1994) and throughout north and […]