<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In spite of the fact the scene of food production is the rural territory; we are witnessing more and more unusual endeavours for farming in cities, additionally in megalopolises. There are numerous researches on the theme, and the new interest in the local cultivation of fruit and vegetable in cities is becoming an earnest factor in urban life in Western Europe, in the USA, and in the Developing World. At the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AUTh two professors of architecture managed a course for MSc students of architecture and horticulture, with the intend of designing forms of urban agriculture on a fallow area in Thessaloniki, and considering the crisis situation in Greek. With analysing the proposals of “The Thessaloniki project - Red and Green” parallel with various realized urban agriculture projects I emphasise the force and necessity of the generation of a community</p></abstract>

In spite of the fact the scene of food production is the rural territory; we are witnessing more and more unusual endeavours for farming in cities, additionally in megalopolises. There are numerous researches on the theme, and the new interest in the local cultivation of fruit and vegetable in cities is becoming an earnest factor in urban life in Western Europe, in the USA, and in the Developing World. At the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AUTh two professors of architecture managed a course for MSc students of architecture and horticulture, with the intend of designing forms of urban agriculture on a fallow area in Thessaloniki, and considering the crisis situation in Greek. With analysing the proposals of “The Thessaloniki project - Red and Green” parallel with various realized urban agriculture projects I emphasise the force and necessity of the generation of a community

Potentials of Urban Agriculture in Reflection of “The Thessaloniki Project - Red and Green”

Institute of Architecture, Ybl Miklos Faculty of Architecture, Szent Istvan University, Budapest, Hungary

YBL Journal of Built Environment

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In spite of the fact the scene of food production is the rural territory; we are witnessing more and more unusual endeavours for farming in cities,...

Potentials of Urban Agriculture in Reflection of “The Thessaloniki Project - Red and Green”

Published Online: Jul 10, 2014

Page range: 30 - 41

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbe-2014-0003

Keywords
Community agriculture, Self-provisioning, Rural and Urban, Sustainable city, Urban farming in Thessaloniki

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Potentials of Urban Agriculture in Reflection of “The Thessaloniki Project - Red and Green”

Published Online: Jul 10, 2014

Page range: 30 - 41

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbe-2014-0003

KeywordsCommunity agriculture, Self-provisioning, Rural and Urban, Sustainable city, Urban farming in Thessaloniki

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords
Community agriculture, Self-provisioning, Rural and Urban, Sustainable city, Urban farming in Thessaloniki