Thursday 24 February 2011

U-FARM (Urban-Food Access Review by Morphological level): Urban Design for food cycles

 Proposed urban design for Chapel Street, Salford. Design has been generated by the U-FARM (Urban-Food Access Review by Morphological level) framework developed as an output of the MA Urban Design dissertation 2011. Thanks to all staff – former and current at The Joint Centre for Urban design (Oxford Brookes University) in supporting my studies.

 Integrated public art - designed as part of this dissertation December 2010 - symbolising the possibilities of a new acculturation with food as a community-based asset

Below: Example page from dissertation evaluating a case study: Arkwright Community Garden, The Meadows, Notts. Thanks to Cathy Symes and all at ACG. Case studies were audited for the presence of food cycle stages and categorisation formed as part of the post-analysis