Carrot City Creating Places for Urban Agriculture

Carrot City is a collection of ideas, both conceptual and realized, that use design to enable sustainable food production, helping to reintroduce urban agriculture to our cities. Focusing on the need and desire to grow food within the city to supply food from local sources, the contributions of architecture, landscape design, and urban design are explored. Forty projects demonstrate how the production of food can lead to visually striking and artistically interesting solutions that create community and provide inhabitants with immediate access to fresh, healthful ingredients. The authors show how city planning and architecture that considers food production as a fundamental requirement of design result in more community gardens, greenhouses tucked under raised highways, edible landscapes in front yards in place of resource-devouring lawns, living walls that bring greenery into dense city blocks, and productive green roofs on schools and large apartment blocks that can be tended and harvested by students and residents alike.

ISBN:	9781580933117
Publisher:	The Monacelli Press
Imprint:	The Monacelli Press
Published date:	20 Oct 2011
DEWEY:	635.091732
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	240
Weight:	1306g
Height:	277mm
Width:	219mm
Spine width:	23mm

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