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Feeding cities: new trans-scale scenarios for Urban Agriculture

Leonardo Zaffi, Michele D’Ostuni

TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment

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This paper reconsiders the relationship between urbanized areas and food production, noting that cities are sustained by food from remote locations with unsustainable environmental impacts. Advances in soil-free cultivation technologies offer opportunities to integrate productive vegetation into urban and residential spaces. This approach calls for innovative design paradigms that integrate the built environment with cultivated spaces to promote sustainable regeneration.