Pop up gardens, local food growing initiatives, community gardens, are part of our delivery of sustainable landscape design. Yesterday I ran a 2 hour studio session for 3rd year spatial design students, looking at Edible Cities around the world. The kids (they were all at least 20 years younger than me, so I shall call them kids :-) ) asked good questions, some around their concerns for the economic vitality of rural areas if food production moved to the city. It is very easy to simplify complex problems and look at parts rather than the whole. The students brought their wide ranging backgrounds to the debate and looked at the big picture. We are all part of a much bigger ecosystem and economic system. What we do in one place will have an effect in another.
As we strive to create green urban environments , we must also consider rural effects. However, that must not stop us from our quest for healthy, liveable cities. Taking brownfield space and turning it a bio-diverse green is good for us and good for the environment, wherever it may lie.
Development has been an economic aim since the industrial revolution. Now we must link that with environmental and social development. But first people have to recognise that there is a problem that needs fixing. In Boston great things are being done as a start through http://thefoodproject.org/local-food
As we strive to create green urban environments , we must also consider rural effects. However, that must not stop us from our quest for healthy, liveable cities. Taking brownfield space and turning it a bio-diverse green is good for us and good for the environment, wherever it may lie.
Development has been an economic aim since the industrial revolution. Now we must link that with environmental and social development. But first people have to recognise that there is a problem that needs fixing. In Boston great things are being done as a start through http://thefoodproject.org/local-food
