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CPULs: Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities

By Andre Viljoen , Joe Howe , Katrin Bohn

Book information

Publisher
Architectural Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0-7506-5543-7
Open Library ID
OL7972379M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10340330 bytes)
Pages
319\319
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-11-09 02:42:13
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Description

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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