This book explores how lessons from past urban planning experiences can inform current debates on urban agriculture. Productive landscapes today have been posited as instruments for the positive transformation related to territorial fragility and abandonment, promoting social cohesion, food security and wider environmental and economic benefits. The book will re-map the way in which seeming landscape limitations and challenges can be turned into potential, innovation and a new lease of urban-rural life. It does so by drawing on significant past urban agricultural experiences in planning as vectors for new critical reflections relevant to re-igniting ideas for future envisioning of urban scenarios in which productive landscapes play fundamental transformative roles. The focus is on planning ideas and the roles of key individual planners, all of which have designed agricultural strategies for the city at some point in their careers. It intends to help us today reimagine urban-rural relationships, and the transformation of under or mis-used urban open spaces, peri-urban areas, fringe conditions and in-between spaces.

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Dr. Carla Brisotto obtained an architectural degree from the University IUAV of Venice (Italy) and a Ph.D. in Design, Planning, and Construction (DCP) from the University of Florida ( United States) with a dissertation focused on agrarian urbanism. She is currently a post-doctoral associate at the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER). Her research focuses on the historical and contemporary practice of productive landscapes focusing on resilient and equitable foodshed design. She recently expanded her research to study how community participation can enhance equitable and resilient urban development design processes specifically on issues related to climate change. She has authored and co-authored publications on urban agriculture and resilient design and taught seminars and courses on resilient urbanism and equitable design strategies at the University of Florida.

Prof. Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira is an Associate Professor in Urbanism at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His research lies at the intersection of urban and landscape planning, with a focus on how ideas for green space systems have been considered in planning thought both from a contemporary and historical perspectives. Recent research areas include green urbanism, sustainable and resilient cities, planning models aimed at balancing urbanisation with nature - in particular related to the green wedge idea, green and blue infrastructure, and planning history and theory. He is the author of the book Green Wedge Urbanism: History, Theory and Contemporary Practice, published by Bloomsbury (London/ New York) and co-editor of the book Planning Cities with Nature: Theories, Strategies and Methods, published by Springer.

Inhalt

1. Rethinking the urban-rural relationships and productive urban landscapes

Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira and Carla Brisotto

Part 1 - Urban-Rural relationships

2. Paths to the green city: On the work of Fritz Schumacher

Dirk Schubert 

3. Land-Nature and its economic and cultural value: The case of the Zuiderzee Reclamation

Herman van Bergeijk, Denise Piccinini

4. Sharp´s Town and Countryside 

Izaskun Aseguinolaza Braga  5. Tinctured polarities: town and country planning for post-war London

Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira

6. The roots of the city-countryside relationship: A lesson from post-war town planning in Italy** **

Luca Lazzarini

7. Étienne de Groër: Planning the Lisbon Garden City-Region

Teresa Marat-Mendes

8. City and countryside: a historical landscape system to enhance. The case of the territorial plan of Sorrento-Amalfi Peninsula by Roberto Pane and Luigi Piccinato, 1968-1987 Paola Branduini, Andrea Pane

Part 2 - Productive urban landscapes 

9. Dynamic Usonia: Evolving Wrightian organic principles for community sustainability Cecilia Muzika Klein

10. The Future without centralities: New Settling by M.Okhitovich and his proponents Fedor Kudryavstev

11. The City in th****e landscape: Alfred Caldwell's vision and experiment for an ecological city

Kristin Jones 12. From rural lands to agribusiness precincts: Agriculture in metropolitan Sydney in 1948 - 2018

Joshua Zeunert, Robert Freestone

13. Brøndby Allotment Gardens: Building social cohesion in Danish peri-urban spaces  Kathryn Terzano

14. In a crisis, re-start from patch! Possible learnings from P.M.'s social ecological utopia bolo Silvio Cristiano

15. Thinking utopia: a resilient approach to productive landscapes by Yona Friedman

Carla Brisotto