Urban agriculture-towards a continuous productive-space system in the city

Abstract

Urban Agriculture is not a new term in the history of urbanism. Many experiences have tried to include agriculture in the field of town planning, with very interesting initiatives in the first decades of the twentieth century or by the proposals for 'protection and management of agricultural areas in metropolitan environments' developed more recently. Bringing the dimension of agriculture to consolidated urban areas has undergone spectacular development over the last ten years, because it is accompanied by the growing concern for urban sustainability and the subject of feeding cities. Moreover, for urban planners, the strategies of 'continuous productive urban landscapes' (CPULs) that aim to introduce coherent productive interconnected spaces inside cities as an essential component or sustainable urban infrastructure, become a great innovation when designing open-space systems.