Second Nature Urban Agriculture : Designing productive cities
- Submitting institution
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University of Brighton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 7119835
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415540575
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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C - Architecture and Design: Communities and Sustainability
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Second Nature meets the criteria for double weighting as it represents a complex, extended and multi-layered process of creative individual and collective investigation. Viljoen and Bohn’s research was primarily conducted over three years (2010-2012). It consists of interwoven layers: theoretical analysis, fieldwork, and the re-evaluation of their design research undertaken up to 2012; reflections on research since 2005; and an international research time line and categorisation up to 2012. Viljoen and Bohn authored 156 pages of co-produced chapters, Bohn leading on 84 pages and Viljoen on 72 pages; and worked with 26 invited authors to contextualise their research insights.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Second Nature is co-authored and edited by Viljoen and Bohn. Its content and structure were conceived by Bohn and Viljoen to reflect their multidisciplinary research approach, whereby design research is tested against criteria from other disciplines, such as geography, sociology and agronomy. The book advances the authors’ earlier theoretical research that established and conceptualised a case for food-productive green infrastructure in cities. It does so by establishing a sequence of actions by which practitioners can put theory into practice. The actions are based on a critical evaluation of new research findings revealed by using exhibitions, prototyping, fieldwork and events as research tools.
The book contains an overarching text by Bohn and Viljoen (about half of the book) and invited chapters by 26 international experts in the theories and practices of green architecture, urban design, planning, food cultures and (urban) agriculture. By interweaving these different voices in a novel way, the book not only publishes advances in theoretical research on urban agriculture, but also provides evidence of the prototypes through which urban food design can be tested, offering practical steps towards its long-term introduction into cities. The book is structured in three parts. Part I engages a series of urban design theories that may hold keys to the successful implementation of a food-productive city and contextualises the subject. It introduces new primary field-based and applied design research evaluating innovative and emerging urban agriculture practices. Part II defines four CPUL City Actions, a practice-based planning and design toolkit for implementing more localised urban food systems based on urban agriculture. Part III brings together a repository of resources presenting a unique snapshot of the international discourse at the time of writing.
In 2015, the book won the international Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President’s Award for Outstanding University-Located Research.
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- Non-English
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