Creating urban agriculture systems : an integrated approach to design

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Creating Urban Agricultural Systems provides you with background, expertise, and inspiration for designing with urban agriculture. It shows you how to grow food in buildings and cities, operate growing systems, and integrate them with natural cycles and existing infrastructures. It teaches you the essential environmental inputs and operational strategies of urban farms, and inspires community and design tools for innovative operations and sustainable urban environments that produce fresh, local food. Over 70 projects and 16 in-depth case studies of productive, integrated systems, located in North America, Europe, and Asia, are organized by their emphasis on nutrient, water and energy management, farm operation, community integration, and design approaches so that you can see innovative strategies in action. Interviews with leading architecture firms, including WORKac, Kiss + Cathcart, Weber Thompson, CJ Lim and Studio 8, and SOA Architects, highlight the challenges and rewards you face when creating urban agriculture systems. Catalogs of growing and building systems, a glossary, bibliography, and abstracts will help you find information fast.--COVER.  Read more... Introduction : Urban agriculture and the built environment -- Part I. Environmental resources : Nutrients: growing systems and zero waste future : Catalogs : Soil-based growing systems in urban agriculture Hydroponic growing systems in urban agriculture -- Water: connecting the cycle : Catalog : Alternative water sources -- Energy: solar-powered photosynthesis and greenhouses : Catalogs : Greenhouse typologies Greenhouse cover materials Lighting technologies Innovative greenhouses and vertical farms : Case studies : Aquaponic solar greenhouse Granpa domes Sky greens Vertical harvest Plantagon Vertical indoor farming: a comparison -- Part II. Human expertise : Operation: farm management, business planning, and financing : Complex urban agricultural operations: case studies : Growing power Brooklyn Grange The plant Lufa Farms Commercial hydroponic rooftop farms: a comparison -- Community: education and social integration : Community-based projects: case studies : Prinzessinnengarten Organopónicos R-Urban The Stop Community Food Centre School gardens: microcosms of urban agriculture -- Design: from urban visions to building integration : Profiles of architectural firms: architects' profiles : CJ Lim, Studio 8 Architects Kiss + Cathcart, architects Weber Thompson SOA Architectes WORKac -- Glossary.