Design Observer :: Join the Discussion http://places.designobserver.com/feature/notes-toward-a-history-of-agrarian-urbanism/15518/ en-us Design Observer Group 2011-02-27T16:46:31-05:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0 karl rohrbaugh http://places.designobserver.com/feature/notes-toward-a-history-of-agrarian-urbanism/15518/#comments 2011-02-27T16:46:31-05:00 I really agree with you: considering farming space and food production in urban design can have "potentially profound implications for the shape and structure of the city itself". I would even add that this will make us think differently about some existing territories.
In my PhD research (with B.Secchi and P.Vigano' in 2007) I was proposing to have the dispersed city of Veneto Region (Italy) be considered as the result of an implicit "agrarian urbanism". We probably should not simply dismiss it as a land-consuming urban model (as it is viewed at the moment by most italian urban planners). On the contrary, and this is what I'm presently researching on, we should verify the potentialities it could have as a different, maybe more resilient, urban model, exactly because it has agriculture within.
Thank you for your article: it will be a great support for my research
viviana
]]> viviana ferrario http://places.designobserver.com/feature/notes-toward-a-history-of-agrarian-urbanism/15518/#comments 2010-12-01T03:35:50-05:00 I am wondering if you will at some point address Sculpture/Art
and Design in the urban form.
Love to read your thoughts.
Scarff]]> S. T. Scarff http://places.designobserver.com/feature/notes-toward-a-history-of-agrarian-urbanism/15518/#comments 2010-11-16T09:29:01-05:00 Is compact city a compatible concept for low density rurbanization emerging in large scale agricultural projects?]]> Mauricio Huaco http://places.designobserver.com/feature/notes-toward-a-history-of-agrarian-urbanism/15518/#comments 2010-11-14T15:04:58-05:00
I recently attended an in-process screening of a documentary by Cintia Cabib, looking at urban gardens in Washington DC. The film looks at food production and urban agriculture through the lives of senior citizens, yuppies, handicapped children, etc. in the DC area.

http://communityofgardeners.com/

Linking the two, I am wondering if such examples with immediate social and economic impact will bring back the notion of food production as larger design elements in the future of urban design...

]]> Kaushambi Shah http://places.designobserver.com/feature/notes-toward-a-history-of-agrarian-urbanism/15518/#comments 2010-11-10T16:00:36-05:00
Has there been any movement toward incorporating a permaculture paradigm into any type of urban living/garden development?]]> http://places.designobserver.com/feature/notes-toward-a-history-of-agrarian-urbanism/15518/#comments 2010-11-05T15:56:19-05:00 Matthew S. http://places.designobserver.com/feature/notes-toward-a-history-of-agrarian-urbanism/15518/#comments 2010-11-05T02:18:21-05:00 As a number of progressively abandoned cities in the industrial Midwest begin to confront the issue of left-behind spaces, "urban farming" is a frequently naive response intended, it seems, to profess a political purposefulness in the absence of creative leadership and collective failure to address the root causes of flight. Your essay is a great tool to remind new planners of the potentials in a sophisticated and thoughtful approach to sustainable cities and the opportunities in a more open urban landscape.
Thank you!]]> Jim Meredith http://places.designobserver.com/feature/notes-toward-a-history-of-agrarian-urbanism/15518/#comments 2010-11-04T18:55:58-05:00 Leah Ray http://places.designobserver.com/feature/notes-toward-a-history-of-agrarian-urbanism/15518/#comments 2010-11-04T18:06:26-05:00