Urban agriculture

Sources of research

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/oct/21/nagoya-biodiversity-summit-food-security

http://capitalgrowth.org/

Particularly the Edible Estates section which deals with urban food growing within inner city social housing estates

http://www.london.gov.uk/londonfood/

http://www.london.gov.uk/londonfood/board/

http://www.growingcommunities.org/

http://www.foodvision.gov.uk/pages/growing-food

http://foodurbanism.blogspot.com/

http://www.thebiglunch.com/

http://nomadicallotments.wordpress.com/

http://www.transitiontowns.org/

http://www.ealingtransition.org.uk

http://westealingabundancew13.wordpress.com/

The Union Street Orchard it describes has just been taken down but is described in the above link.

http://www.exyzt.net/

Two years ago the site was the location of the Southwark Lido by French architects Exyzt

Last year Exyzt built the Dalston Mill project, partnering with muf as part of the Barbican's Radical Nature exhibition:

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=9311

This year they partnered again for the Dalston Barn project, testing for muf's masterplan for Dalston:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23851003-the-big-society-begins-in-dalston.do

The Vacant Lot Project:

http://www.what-if.info/Vacant_Lot_no1.html

Its expansion last year:

http://www.what-if.info/20_vacant_lots.html

A collaboration with artist Jeremey Deller to reproduce the original garden in the Westfield Centre

http://www.what-if.info/Vacant_Lot_Louis_Vuitton.html

The Manor Garden Allotments, removed for the Olympic construction.

http://www.lifeisland.org/

In Hackney:

http://www.growingcommunities.org/

Precedent studies for food proximity

Andrea Branzi, Agronica Project, (1995)

Manzini, E. and Susani, M, The Solid Side, V+K Publishing/Philips, 1995

‘Symbiotic Metropolis: Agronica’, by Adrea Branzi, D.Donegani, A.Petrillo, and C.Raimondo, p 101-120

Domus 878, Feb. 2005, Per una architettura enzimatica, Enzymatic architecture, by Andrea Branzi, p. 48-57

Incredible Edible, Town of Todmordens

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/todmordens-good-life-introducing-britains-greenest-town-1830666.html

Wageningen Food Valley, Netherlands

Potager du Roi, Versailles, France

Holkham Hall Walled Garden, Norfolk

Different models of urban agriculture

Ancient Persian, the usage of waste

Machu Bishu, water was conserved and reused as part of the stepped architecture of the city and vegetable beds were designed to gather sun in order to prolong the growing season

Lake inlay in Burma, floating rafts on the water

Allotments

The Bedding areas in a park are replaced by food growing plots, so that users do not realise at first sight that planting is entirely made up of over 150 varieties of heirloom vegetables, herbs and edible flowers

A fish farm as part of a river ecosystem where they are able to harvest watercress and fish to sell to local restaurants. This holistic system goes one step further, by feeding some of the fish on worms that are produced as part of a large scale composting enterprise on site