Urban Agriculture, Part 1: The Community Gardens

Wright’s Sketches for Broadacre City.

“We will spread out, and in so doing will transform our human habitation sites into those allowing beauty of design and landscaping, sanitation and fresh air, privacy and playgrounds, and a plot whereon to raise things.” Frank Lloyd Wright

By Joëlle Payet
Pop-Up City
June 28, 2011

Excerpt:

In 1932 Frank Lloyd Wright presented the so-called Broadacre City in his book ‘The Disappearing City’.

Often referred to as a Utopia, The Broadacre City is now celebrated through landscape urbanism projects all around the world. Often considered as the main ecological threat, the city can now play in addressing the environmental challenges and part of its regeneration will take the form of urban agriculture.

This trend is not new but the economic downturn along with the wish for cheaper and healthier food fueled a new relationship with nature in the city. The public is not only aware of this necessary shift and ready for it but it is actively taking part in making the city more sustainable. So let’s start this new series of posts about trends in urban agriculture with the community gardens.

Read the complete article here.