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Urban planning and food (4). Paris
According to the Note Rapide 605- Quelles perspectives d’évolution pour le marché de Rungis?, published by the Institut d’Urbanisme et d’Amenagement de la Règion Ile-de-France (Paris region), the...
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Urban planning and food (5). Buenos Aires
The article Agricultura familiar periurbana y ordenamiento territorial en el Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires. Un análisis diacrónico, published in Geografía y sistemas de información geográfica...
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Urban planning and food (6) Madrid, potatoes and the Retiro Park
The Retiro park, in central Madrid, as substituted by farmland in the region, at the same scale After seeing what happens in several cities, a look at Madrid. Data from the Regional Statistical...
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Urban planning and food (7) La Aldea de San Nicolas
La Aldea de San Nicolas is a municipality in the western part of the island of Gran Canaria, with a population of 8.626. It is surounded by protected spaces related to its arid and volcanic...
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Urban planning and food (8) Lanzarote
The island of Lanzarote is a volcanic territory in the Atlantic ocean. A large series of eruption in the XVIIIth century destroyed relevant agricultural landscapes. The islanders developed agricultural...
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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...
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Urban 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...
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Urban 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...
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Urban 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...
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Ramona 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...
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Maps 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...
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Biblio (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...
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Starters 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...
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Starters 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...
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Biblio (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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