1st Edition
Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions Connecting Urban-Rural Spheres in Casablanca
Edited By Undine Giseke, Maria Gerster-Bentaya, Frank Helten, Matthias Kraume, Dieter Scherer, Guido Spars, Fouad Amraoui, Abdelaziz Adidi, Said Berdouz, Mohemed Chlaida, Majid Mansour, Mohamed Mdafai
Copyright 2015
570 Pages
2 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
570 Pages
2 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development. Agriculture within urban growth centres today is more than an economic or social left-over or a niche practice. It is instead a complex system that offers multiple potentials for interaction with the urban system. Urban open space and agriculture can be linked to a productive... Read more
1. Why are we talking about Agriculture as Part of the City? – Framing a Problem from Life World to Research 2. The Challenge: Grand Casablanca as an Emerging Megacity 3. Understanding the Problems of Grand Casablanca? 4. Problem Solving: Agriculture as an Integrated Element of Urban Development in Grand Casablanca 5. Insights & Reflections – An Impetus towards Urban Research and Action
Biography
Giseke, Undine is a landscape architect and professor at Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of Landscape Architecture and Open Space Planning, director of the UAC project 2005–2014. Expertise: open space and urban systems, transdisciplinary design.
