Food for the Cities: Aliments pour les Villes - Accueil. Urbanization is one of the major factors influencing global reality. By 2050, an estimated 70% of world’s total population will be urban. In addition to a new spatial configuration, urbanization brings fundamental changes to the socio-economic environment, including in the prospects for food and nutrition security. In 2001, FAO launched a multidisciplinary initiative “Food for the Cities” which aims at addressing the challenges that urbanization brings to the urban and rural population, as well as the environment, by building more sustainable and resilient food systems.
The Food for the Cities initiative has been contributing to increased dialogue and partnerships with institutions at international and national levels, and in particular with municipalities. A global collaborative effort is emerging to join forces to increase awareness of the importance of CRFS at all levels. For more info on the mailing list and to join in the group, click here. La ville-nature - Ville et biodiversité - CNRS sagascience. Lutte contre l’artificialisation, que font nos voisins ? / Gestion de l'espace-Urbanisme / Nos thématiques. Le constat d’une artificialisation démesurée des espaces agricoles tant en France que dans les autres pays européens a conduit le ministère de l’agriculture à mettre en place une veille sur les pratiques régionales des pays voisins en matière de gestion économe de l’espace.
Ce travail de « benchmark » inédit a abouti à la publication début mai 2012 d’un rapport corédigé par le conseil général de l’environnement et du développement durable (CGEDD) et le conseil général de l’alimentation, de l’agriculture et des espaces ruraux (CGAAER). L’étude des pratiques des régions du Bade Wurtenberg (Allemagne), de la Flandre (Belgique), du Pays Basque espagnol et du canton Bâle-Campagne (Suisse) fait ressortir des difficultés communes mais aussi des pistes envisagées pour faire face à l’inquiétante réduction des surfaces agricoles et naturelles. Christopher de Laburthe. Cités végétales - architecture bionique. TAQ#8 : La Graine et le Compost. Re:farm the city. I will share here a low cost solution for the recycling of organic waste, appropriate for apartments and urban housing that do not have a piece of land or an outdoor area.
This construction is inspired by the Cadico earthworms nice project. The photos are from the composter I made here at home : ) It’s called a Vermi composter because we use worms in the process, uhuuuuu big thanks to the worms, they deserve! To make this kind of composter, it is important to use stackable supports to separate the different stages of composting. In this case, I used 3 buckets of margarine 15L reused. You can ask for them for free at local businesses such as coffee shops, bakeries, juice houses, etc..
The first step is to cut the center of the lids that stands between the buckets. Then we will make holes into the bottom of the 2 buckets that will stay on top and receive the organic waste. We also make small holes in the lid that will stay on top and was not cut: We use the California red worms. . . . . . GREEN RUSH. Worgamic. Laboratoire d’Urbanisme Agricole. 20-foot MICRO FARMS. SOA Architectes Paris. Www.aquaponie.fr • Afficher le sujet - Projet universitaire de ferme aquaponique. Vincent Callebaut Architecte DRAGONFLY. The world of fast-food and frozen food is over! The urban keen interest of the beginning of our Century turns toward the garden flat bringing back the countryside in our overcrowded cities fighting from now on for a community urban agriculture able to contribute to the durability of the city and to rethink the food production.
On the roofs, terraces, balconies, in the hollow of the non-built public spaces, in the interior yards and the suspended greenhouses, the eco-warrior aspires to escape from its competitive and consumeristic universe imposed by the laws of the market. He desires to cultivate its immediate landscape so as to better take root in the ground by creating his own ecologic and alimentary biodiversity. The consumer becomes from then on producer and the garden inhabitant ! According to the PNUD (Programme of the United Nations for the Development), the worldwide urban population will go from 3.1 billion of inhabitants in 2009 up to 5.5 billion of inhabitants within 2025.
Atelier CMJN. eVolo, projet lauréat : les clefs de la victoire. Lauréate de l’édition 2011 du concours eVolo, la proposition 'LO2P' de l’équipe Julien Combes-Gaël Brulé, en prenant la forme d’une roue géante, s’éloigne des images canoniques de tours et autres structures verticales. «Par définition, le concours eVolo offre beaucoup de liberté dans l’interprétation du concept de gratte-ciel.
Nous voulions quelque chose de haut et nous sommes partis sur quelque chose de rond en référence à l’oxygène», explique Julien Combes. La métaphore n’est pas anecdotique. Un centre de recyclage automobile en partie basse fournit l’acier de la structure du projet LO2P, dont le sommet est dédié à des espaces verts. Ce filtre géant «utilise les énergies produites lors du processus de recyclage des voitures». «Nous sommes partis du constat que les ressources naturelles s’épuisent rapidement et que, par ailleurs, la plupart des produits manufacturés telles les voitures reposent sur des énergies fossiles qui, une fois épuisées, rendront la voiture obsolète.
Reinterpreting Green Space in West London. This post is also available in: Chinese (Traditional) ‘A product of the creative encounter between the man-made and the natural, between order and disorder, the garden can offer productive metaphors for the interactions between human life and time, care, thought or space.’ The fate of the city garden has been featured on This Big City in the past. With pressure on urban space increasing as populations grow and building becomes more intensive, will gardens be a less common sight in future cities? Those interested in this subject (who happen to be in London this weekend) might enjoy the Serpentine Gallery’s Garden Marathon. Held annually in west London’s Kensington Gardens, this sixth Garden Marathon aims to be ‘an exploration of the concept of the garden’. As we’ve seen with New York’s High Line, if you are prepared to reinterpret green space, the results can be impressive.
Charles Jencks - The Avenue of Doubles focuses through a sewer pipe on a volcano 375 million years old. Bosco Verticale : une forêt dans la ville (diaporama) Dans son vaste projet de réaménagement urbain BioMilano, en prévision de l’exposition internationale de 2015, l’architecte transalpin Stefano Boeri prévoit la construction d’une ceinture verte et d’immeubles végétalisés afin de redonner des espaces verts à la capitale économique italienne. Car la ville lombarde est polluée et manque d’espaces verts.
Il a donc imaginé, entre autres, deux tours d’habitation de grande hauteur disposant de terrasses implantées en quinconce, et totalement végétalisées. Actuellement en cours de construction dans le quartier Garibaldi-Repubblica, les deux immeubles mesurent respectivement 80 et 112 mètres. Ils devraient participer au changement d’aspect de la ville qui se dote de nombreuses structures de grandes hauteurs : projet CityLife qui comprend trois gratte-ciel de 170 à 218 mètres, « Cité de la mode » culminant à 220 mètres, futur siège de la région Lombardie (163 mètres), tours Varesine de 140 et 150 mètres, etc. Eco-Pods Produce Bio-Fuel Energy.
We have seen the financial outcome of the Real Estate crash in 2008. What sometimes we overlook are the urban voids left by unfinished buildings. That is the case of the Filene’s development in downtown Boston which construction was halted in November 2008. Höweler + Yoon Architecture and Squared Design Lab think this as an opportunity to explore new ways of producing architecture. They have designed a prefabricated ‘Eco-Pod’ that proposes to stimulate the economy and the ecology of downtown Boston. Via Inhabitat & Flavorwire To commemorate the 9th Annual Skyscraper Competition, eVolo is publishing the Limited Edition Book "eVolo Skyscrapers 2" which is the follow-up to its highly acclaimed book “eVolo Skyscrapers”. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book. The Taiwan Tower is a Sustainable Twin Syscraper for the 21st Century. The Taiwan Tower is a proposal by Vienna-based architect Steven Ma in Collaboration with San Liu, Xinyu Wan, and Emre Icdem. This highly innovative project consists of a set of super slim twin towers that reach a height of 350 meters where an observatory and sky-park is located.
The plinth of the towers is formed by an intricate set of museums that will exhibit Taiwan’s past, present, and future. Each of the three museums configures itself around recreational areas that include a water plaza, an outdoor theatre, a green house, and an event plaza. Another interesting feature is the location of four different types of hanging gardens along the towers’ structure with high-end residences and an aviary for endangered bird species. Among the sustainable features, the Taiwan Tower is equipped with water recycling plants, wind turbines, and a beautiful set of photovoltaic cells placed along the sky-garden and on top of the museums’ undulating surfaces.
About City Farmer. Shoemakers, fashion models, computer geeks, politicians, lawyers, teachers, chefs … all city dwellers … all can grow food at home after work in back yards, community gardens or on flat roofs. For the past 36 years, City Farmer has encouraged urban dwellers to pull up a patch of lawn and plant some vegetables, kitchen herbs and fruit. Our message is the same today as it was in 1978 and will be relevant far into the future. This website is a collection of stories about our work at City Farmer here in Vancouver, Canada, and about urban farmers from around the world.
The site is maintained by City Farmer executive director, Michael Levenston. Email: cityfarmer@gmail.com Phone: 604.685.5832 City Farmer’s first web site Urban Agriculture Notes (www.cityfarmer.org) has hundreds of pages of information about city farming. City Farmer teaches people how to grow food in the city, compost their waste and take care of their home landscape in an environmentally responsible way. CRAPAUD – Collectif de recherche en aménagement paysager et agriculture urbaine durable. Le portail des jardins partagés et d'insertion d'Ile-de-France.