Workshop, Erasmus Intensive Programme “Citygreening” How Town Planning Can Integrate Urban Agriculture in City Regeneration, Turin Italy, 2014
Andre Viljoen, Kostantinos Chalaris, Frank Lohrberg, Axel Timpe, Yvon Le Caro, Hayriye Esbah, Irena Fialova, Radmila Fingerova, Milena Tasheva-Petrova, Vesselinka Troeva, Giuseppe Cinà, Daniela Ciaffi, Paolo Mighetto
The field of study is located in the Southern periphery of Turin, in a mainly agricultural area tight between a natural river park and the urban periphery.
- increase the potential of synergy among city, planning, and agriculture;
- enabling the diffusion of an Agri-Culture within the urban community;
- making available big green areas which maintenance is not depending on the public funding;
- contributing to the general process of rehabilitation of dismissed or abandoned areas;
- involving citizens and consumers, also through educational measures;
- developing a public dialogue on “food and cities”;
- sensitizing young people and adults in UPA activities;
- addressing the question of short supply logistics (km 0);
- enlarging the new training process to the labour market stakeholders;
- supporting new job opportunities in urban areas.