Food Everywhere: Accessible Agriculture, Urban Form

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Food Everywhere: Accessible Agriculture, Urban Form

Submitted to in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2018

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title: Food Everywhere: Accessible Agriculture, Urban Form

creator: Christopher Sullivan

subject: Food security; Urban agriculture; Vertical gardening; Facades, Designs and plans

description: This thesis is an investigation into the opportunity that food offers as connector of different classes and demographics within an urban community. Through the reclamation and retrofitting of facade spaces in order to investigate potential systems that are conducive to plant growth and sustainable interactions with nature in an urban environment. The intention being to rethink and redefine ways in which food systems can engage with users. Looking at themes centered around the ever-expanding nature of global cities as it relates to quality of living and conditions of advantage and disadvantage. In which the primary frame of focus is found in the spectacle of food as it relates to the concepts of place making and community building.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

date: 2018

type: Thesis

format: .pdf

language: eng

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