Productive potential: evaluating residential urban agriculture
| Autor: | N. Claire Napawan, Ellen Burke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
Geography Planning and Development Environmental resource management 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning Provisioning 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Variable (computer science) Landscape architecture Urban planning Metric (unit) Water quality business Urban agriculture Air quality index 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Landscape Research. 41:773-779 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9710 0142-6397 |
| Popis: | Sustainability as a topic in landscape architecture addresses a cross section of environmental and social needs. While transportation alternatives, water quality and air quality are common considerations in sustainable urban development metrics, food provisioning seldom is. This research examines one potential variable determined by environmental designers that can play a critical role in supporting a sustainable food system: residential urban agriculture or the potential to produce food within a residential lot considering existing lot size and configuration. This study evaluates the potential for existing residential lots to provide for the caloric needs of residents in four case study communities within the San Francisco Bay Area and defines a new metric for evaluating a community’s relative productive potential. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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