Urban Farming: The Reluctant Utopia. (3rd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Belleri, Daniele; Ratti, Carlo
• Other Names: White Marcus guestEditor.; Burry Jane guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 93:Number 1(2023)
• Page Start: 14
• Page End: 21
• Publication Date: 2023-01-03
• Subjects: UN -- climate change -- Covid‐19 pandemic -- Russia -- Ukraine -- Ebenezer Howard -- Garden City -- UK -- Broadacre City -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Guggenheim Museum -- 'Countryside: A Report' -- Rem Koolhaas -- AMO -- Detroit -- Pingree's Potato Patches -- Victory Gardens -- First and Second World Wars -- Berlin -- Tiergarten -- Milan -- Piazza del Duomo -- 'Green Guerrillas' -- Whole Earth Catalog -- Richard Buckminster Fuller -- Biosphere 2 -- Arizona -- aeroponics -- Netherlands -- hydroponics -- chinampas -- Aztecs -- Patrick Blanc -- vertical gardens -- Herzog & de Meuron -- Caixa Forum -- Madrid -- CRA‐Carlo Ratti Associati -- Trussardi Dehors -- Jian Mu Tower -- Shenzhen -- ZERO Farms -- Bowery Farming -- AeroFarms -- New York -- Paris -- Agricool -- InFarm -- Dubai -- CropOne -- Hong Kong -- Farm66 -- Lewis Mumford; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2889
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract: The old conceptual dichotomy between the city and the countryside has often been a historical stumbling block for architects and urban planners. Whilst there have been many attempts to bring the city closer to the natural environment, some on grand scales, more modest experiments have often gleaned better results. Daniele Belleri is a partner at design and innovation office CRA‐Carlo Ratti Associati, where he is in charge of all editorial and curatorial projects. He and the practice's founder, architect and engineer Carlo Ratti – who is director of the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – together explore our contemporary options.