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The role of food on re-imagining the sustainable city: from the neighbourhood to the region
Teresa Marat-Mendes (Marat-Mendes, T.); João Cunha Borges (Borges, J.C.);
Título Evento
ISOCARP 2019. Beyond the Metropolis
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2019
Língua
Inglês
País
Indonésia
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Abstract/Resumo
Humanity is now believed to live in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, as changes have been reported on the atmosphere, air, water, and soil, but also on societal perceptions of these issues. This presentation departs from the theoretical assumption that the impact of the abovementioned changes on culture and the environment have not yet found a stable influence on urban planning. This presentation overviews the implications of the food system within urban planning while considering it as a socio-technical system which integrates production, distribution, transformation, consumption and disposal patterns. The production phase of the food system in particular, emerges as a fundamental planning challenge, extending to urban form solutions, individual behaviours, dietary regimes, inequalities in foodsheds planning, and the cultural capital of food. Accordingly, the food system emerges here as an opportunity to identify how current urban fabrics of cities and their rural and regional hinterlands can be transformed in terms of their metabolic function and respond to the needs of people and the environment. To do so, this presentation introduces the preliminary results of an analysis conducted by an ongoing research project SPLACH – Spatial Planning for Change, at two particular scales: the region and the neighbourhood. Thus, while focusing in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), in Portugal, we provide an analysis of the Regional Plan as well as of specific residential neighbourhoods located in LMA, regarding the relationship between the food system functioning and urban planning approaches. The analysis includes a comparative number of case studies which differ in urban form solutions, socio-economic conditions, but also geographical location. The results support the request for a stronger integration of the above-identified underexplored topics of the food system within urban planning, which will be fundamental to inform a new theory of the city that makes any serious contribution towards a sustainability transition.
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Palavras-chave
Urban Planning,Urban Agriculture,Sustainability Transition,Region,Neighbourhood
  • Outras Ciências Naturais - Ciências Naturais
  • Outras Engenharias e Tecnologias - Engenharia e Tecnologia
  • Agricultura, Silvicultura e Pescas - Ciências Agrárias
  • Geografia Económica e Social - Ciências Sociais
  • Outras Ciências Sociais - Ciências Sociais
  • Artes - Humanidades
  • Outras Humanidades - Humanidades
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Referência de financiamento Entidade Financiadora
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016431 FCT COMPETE2020