Urban planning and food (9) Vegaviana
Vegaviana is from 2009 a municipality in the province of Cáceres, in Spain. The settlement was created in 1954 as a new planned agrarian settlement, as a part of the internal colonization movement...
View ArticleUrban planning and food (11) Street markets
The open markets system in Paris is based on temporary ocupations of the public rights of way, mainly for food sales. The aim is to provide citizens with a choice of quality fresh food. There are 82...
View ArticleUrban planning and food (12) Markets
A night view of the Mercado de San Miguel The city of Madrid has historically had a set of public markets into buildings; up to the 1980s these markets asumed a large part of the fresh food supply to...
View ArticleUrban planning and food (13) Santa Caterina
The Santa Caterina market (Barcelona) is a good place to give yourself a treat, be it food-related or architectural. According to a logic close to that of Madrid’s gourmet markets, close to the...
View ArticleRamona and Rafaela
A view of Rafaela from an airplane. Image by Martin Dario Herrera on Panoramio Rafaela is a city with some 100.000 residents in the center-west of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, with a certain...
View ArticleMaps 2015 (1) The American plain
This first example of 2015 is not really a map, but rather a rendering of an idea that has received an award in a competition for students held by the American Society of Landscape Architects. Its...
View ArticleBiblio (117) Four case studies on urban agriculture
A report by the Urban Development and Resilience Unit of the World Bank, studying cases in Bangalore (India), Accra (Ghana), Nairobi (Kenya) and Lima (Peru). It seems that urban agriculture helps the...
View ArticleStarters of change (10) Contraptions
Somewhere in western Spain: the fruit trees on the foreground have clearly visible drip irrigation Time to widen the scope: in a moment in which the border between urban and rural gets fuzzier in terms...
View ArticleStarters of change (11) Water
The upper image corresponds to the village of Alange, in the Spanish province of Badajoz. The dam was completed in 1992, with a wall 67 m high (from foundation) and 720 m long, so what until then was...
View ArticleBiblio (127). Swiss farmland protection
How to protect a scarce ressource as farmland from urban sprawl? Swiss are trying ir this way
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