Circular City + Living Systems Lab
Urban Agricultural Systems
This research project investigates emerging strategies, current practices, and working case studies to show the environmental, systemic, technical, and operational considerations involved in the larger field of urban agriculture. The research synthesizes information on inputs and outputs, resource efficiencies, environmental benefits, and operational achievements. It connects scientific research with findings from examinations of outstanding case studies, numerous site visits, and interviews with the farmers, founders, consultants, architects, and landscape architects behind innovative farm operations. The research studies examine how these innovative systems can be integrated in the design of cities and the built environment.
Publications
- Creating Urban Agricultural Systems: An Integrated Approach to Design
- Growing Sustainability – Integrating Algae Cultivation into the Built Environment
- The Built Environments Laboratory: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Studio Education in the Planning and Design Disciplines
- Photosynthetic Energy and Ecological Recycling: The Architectural Potential of Algae Cultivation
- Urban Rooftops as Productive Resources: Rooftop Farming versus Conventional Green Roofs
- Urban Water: Re‐Introduction of Sustainable Water Cycles through Urban Agriculture
- Hybridizing the American ‘Parkway’: The Potential of Urban Agriculture to create more Sustainable Cities
- Urban Cultural Greenway – The Potential of Urban Agriculture as Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
