Landscape+Urbanism

Category: agriculture

  • Agro-Urbanism

    There is a promising new blog _urb_ which focuses on all things urbanism – including a lengthy post on AgroURBanism, which is defined as follows: “There have been many proposals in the last couple of years for different types of agricultural based infrastructures that can be integrated into nurban areas, what I am calling AGRO-URBANISM.…

  • The Power of Plants

    It never ceases to amaze me the wonder of plants in all of their many forms and functions. A few night back I caught the end of a special on Nova about the search for the ‘First Flower’ – which highlighted the story of Archaefructus liaoningensis, the “…ancient plant discovered in the fossil beds of…

  • Veg.itecture #21

    A few choice projects in the realm of Vegetated Architecture. Also, stay tuned for my review of the innaugural issue of GRHCs ‘Living Architecture Monitor’ of which they were kind enough to send me a copy. I perused it on the bus this evening, and it’s definitely one of the better resources out there (more…

  • Aqueous Solutions Pt. 1: Use/Reuse

    Water is obviously something we rely on for a number of things beyond mere existence. At the root of water, however, is it’s ability to sustain us both physically and spiritually. It’s disheartening then to see how much we take this for granted, or exploit and destroy this seemingly ubiquitous (yet actually very precious) resource.…

  • Vertical Farming: In Depth

    I have a fascination with Urban Agriculture, more recently so due to the strategies that are being considered for implementation that either maximizes production per land acre, or maximizes the amount of acres used in the City for ephemeral or permanent farm operations. A recent post by WebUrbanist, ‘5 Urban Design Proposals for 3D City…

  • City Farmer News

    City Farmer and it’s ‘Urban Agriculture Notes’ has been around offering great urban agriculture links from Vancouver, BC for a number of years at their old, no-frills site and their demonstration garden. I was pleased to visit recently and see the link to the new blog-ish City Farmer News (added to the BlogCheck) site and…

  • Urban Ag: The Buzz

    If it’s not landscaping on buildings or ecologically planning communities around the globe, it must be the buzz-concept of Urban Agriculture – and it’s had a lot of press lately. A lot of press. And deservedly so – as the new face(s) of agriculture seem to be collecting into teeming masses with some traction towards…

  • Urban Ag: Mass Planting

    A February post on Urban Agriculture prompted some great comments and unlocked a few resources previously unknown to me. One included the Urban Farm mapping project Dott07. As posted by David Barrie, the project is “…a map of an ‘edible’ town in the North of England.” :: image via David Barrie Via David Barrie: “The…

  • Public Farm 1: Work Architecture Company

    While aiming not to be redundant with other resources out there, I just really like this project quite a bit, and have to expand on the previous post. ‘Public Farm 1’ is the Young Architects Program at PS 1 Project by Work Architecture Company has been covered extensively by a number of sources: originally the…

  • Urban Ag: A Variety of Techniques

    It is garden planning season, and my plan is to double the 200 s.f. first year garden from last year, and build up some raised beds as well. I wonder, how large does a backyard garden have to get to qualify as a farm? Perhaps I should be more careful to plant what I can…