Urban Farm as a System of Productive Urban Green – Challenges and Risks

Abstract

The main topic of the paper is an analysis of the urban farm system phenomenon as the action taken in cities in order to develop a new form of productive green areas. The main goal of the work is to compare solutions implemented in European cities such as Paris, Barcelona or Vienna, with solutions developed in non-European cities like New York, Brasilia or Hong Kong. These solutions differentiate between each other, according to the formulated taxonomy due to the scale, purpose and the role of urban agriculture in each of these examples. System analysis undertaken for the purpose of this study has given a number of common characteristics that determine the growing popularity of new forms of urban agriculture as the most modern city functions.Comparing causes of the emergence, the implementation of different solutions and modifications resulting from functional analysis of the existing facilities is an important element for developing guidelines for the further development of urban agriculture systems, also in Poland.