Conveners
T_16 FOOD (O): L8 - Food Tracks, Urbanism, Urban Agriculture
- Ebru Seçkin (Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi)
- Emel Karakaya Ayalp (İzmir Democracy University)
In the face of the ecological threats that are challenging today's inhabited territories, the agrarian question has nowadays been fully incorporated into the international urban debate and has become one of the privileged topics of discussion. This is certainly not the first time in history that urbanism has taken an interest in agriculture. However, the emergence of the agro-industrial system...
Mediterranean wetlands are extraordinary and complex ecosystems that perform a multitude of functions and provide numerous ecosystem benefits and services, as well as being important carbon sinks. At the same time, they are man-made spaces that promote recreation and leisure, regulate flooding and erosion, purify water and provide valuable water and food resources for local human and non-human...
In an era of planetary crisis, urban planning is increasingly confronted with the challenge of moving beyond extractive development models to foster new ecologies of care and relational urbanism. As cities attempt to integrate environmental concerns into regeneration strategies, urban agriculture is often instrumentalized within top-down greening policies, serving as a compensatory tool rather...
