Urban agriculture can promote nutritional security, food resilience, reduced distribution embodied impacts, and equitable access to healthy foods for burgeoning urban populations. Yet, the lack of open space, contaminated brownfields and surging land prices all constrain the establishment of urban farms and gardens.
Through lectures, discussions, case studies, and group projects, this course will encourage you to think critically about how to create more sustainable and secure urban food systems through renewed integrations of food and architecture. We will examine building form and organization, materials, spatial requirements, environmental control systems, and other key aspects of designing with food in mind. Rediscovering and learning from innovations throughout human history will be a primary focus area of our inquiry and exploration of this topic.
Urban agriculture can promote nutritional security, food resilience, reduced distribution embodied impacts, and equitable access to healthy foods for burgeoning urban populations. Yet, the lack of open space, contaminated brownfields and surging land prices all constrain the establishment of urban farms and gardens.
