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Engineering and technology
- Urbanism and regional planning
Urbanization is a threat to land-based agriculture worldwide. Urbanization destroys fertile soils, leads to the loss of agricultural knowledge and of farmers. The focus on agroecology puts into question a number of fundamental premises regarding the current dominant organization of urbanization: the division between city and country, between agriculture and nature, between consumers and producers. Within the Urbanising in Place project (JPI SUGI NEXUS funded), 8 building blocks were defined that point to new connections, new articulations in the spatial organization of the city. This research builds on these building blocks and focuses in particular on the role of agricultural patrimony in an urban context and the necessary development of (urban) agricultural infrastructure. The focus does not lie on the development of forms of urban agriculture per se, but rather on infrastructure that creates the conditions for settlement and determines the economic viability of regenerative, urban-oriented agriculture.