ABSTRACT

Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research

This book is the long awaited sequel to "Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities".

"Second Nature Urban Agriculture" updates and extends the authors' concept for introducing productive urban landscapes, including urban agriculture, into cities as essential elements of sustainable urban infrastructure. It reviews recent research and projects on the subject and presents concrete actions aimed at making urban agriculture happen.

As pioneering thinkers in this area, the authors bring a unique overview to contemporary developments and have the experience to judge opportunities and challenges facing those who wish to create more equitable, resilient, desirable and beautiful cities.

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CPUL City Theory

chapter |8 pages

Shrinking cities and productive urban landscapes

Philipp Oswalt in an interview with Bohn & Viljoen

part |102 pages

CPUL City Actions

chapter |4 pages

Laboratory for Urban Agriculture

Milwaukee, USA, 2011– ongoing

chapter |6 pages

The Urban Agriculture Curtain

London, UK, 2009

chapter |6 pages

London Thames Gateway

London, UK, 2004

chapter |6 pages

Recording the unrecorded: A community garden inventory for Berlin

Marit Rosol in an interview with Bohn & Viljoen

chapter |6 pages

The Urban Farming Project

Middlesbrough, UK, 2006–2007

chapter |6 pages

Spiel/Feld Marzahn

Berlin, Germany, 2011 – ongoing

chapter |4 pages

Urban Nature Shoreditch

London, UK, 1998

chapter |6 pages

The Continuous Picnic

London, UK, 2008

chapter |6 pages

Urbane Agrikultur in Köln-Ehrenfeld

Köln, Germany, 2010–2011

chapter |6 pages

Initials CPUL: Regenerating the urban

Sabine Voggenreiter in an interview with Bohn & Viljoen

chapter |4 pages

Unlocking Spaces

Brighton, UK, 2010

chapter |4 pages

The Edible Campus

Brighton, UK, 2008

chapter |4 pages

Growing Balconies

London, UK, 2009