Furniture Design Ideas

After the crisis, Cuba lost more than 75 per cent of its import and export capacity. In response, a nationwide 2 Until 1998 Mario Gouzalez Novo was head of the Havana Ministry of Agriculture, Urban Agriculture Department. towards an organised and co-ordinated programme within this process. UPA should be seen as a com­ponent of a […]

Jorge Pena Diaz and Professor Phil Harris This chapter focuses on the outstanding experience of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) taking place in Cuba today. It has developed an innovative and comprehensive model supporting food produc­tion within the boundaries of its cities using a combi­nation of top-down and bottom-up approaches. Cuba, the largest island of […]

What then are the legitimate roles for designers from beyond the plotholding community? Our critique of the new modernism suggests a need for caution in exposing allotments to the ministrations of the archi­tectural profession. There is a great deal of positive character inherited in the allotment landscape that deserves to be conserved, but this is […]

The landscape of allotments also plays a much valued role in the relationship between cultivation and identity building amongst plotholders. Allotment­holding is about much more than growing food: Working outdoors feels much better for your body somehow. . . more vigorous than day to day housework, more variety and stimulus.. . . Unexpected scents brought […]

It can certainly be argued that allotments make a unique contribution to urban landscapes, a contribution which challenges conventional notions of both the urban and design. Urban allotments are a paradoxical echo of the countryside as it once was – a peopled landscape, yet accessible in the heart of the city, a space to construct […]

The few references that are made to design issues in Growing in the Community (Crouch et al., 2001) focus on the conflicting aesthetics of the public gaze and the spontaneous vernacular landscape of the allotment. Far from appealing to the onlooker as an open green space, allotments sometimes present a closed, ramshackle face to the […]

Professor David Crouch and Richard Wiltshire The allotment garden is uniquely privileged as a form of urban agriculture and open space land use in Britain, in as much as local authorities have a statutory duty to provide land for present and future cultivators to grow their own fruit and vegetables. Moreover, the majority of allotment […]

The aim of the atlas diagrams is to explore the position of future CPULs amongst other contemporary open space designs and to extract their unique qualities. The comparison is based on our three criteria spaciousness, occupation and ecology with themes chosen to highlight the posi­tive differences and qualities of CPULs compared to other open urban […]

For comparison with other types of open urban space, we drew on three criteria which embrace, in our eyes, the most important qualities of a CPUL: Spaciousness – as its inheritance, Occupation – as its present, and Ecology – as its gift to the future. Spaciousness Spaciousness describes the space itself, its extent, its width […]

Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen CPULs FOR EUROPEAN CITIES In most European cities, movements towards the revitalisation of city centres have pushed the importance of open urban space to the front of public awareness. The resulting open urban spaces satisfy an immense variety of desires and programmes. Their themes are as different as their clients, […]