Urban Soils and Land Reclamation

Urban Farm DB summary

This chapter introduces the concept of urban soils, describing how urbanization disturbs, compacts, contaminates, and mixes natural soil horizons with construction debris, bricks, asphalt, metals, and plastics, altering their structure, fertility, and contamination levels compared with agricultural or natural soils. The excerpted text is introductory background on urban soil formation and ecosystem functions rather than a report of original site data, measurements, or findings.