The necessity and impact of urban farming

Street Life On The Site

Through the drawing of the street section, it is clear to see that the site is not well developed in terms of the building height, street width and greening degree. Thus, people may have insufficient street life. In addtion, the street pavement is mostly hard surface, with poor water permeability, which is not conducive to local sustainable development.

-He thinks the parking situation here is a bit bad, there are always some cars parked in the wrong place, causing some traffic inconvenience

-There is a lack of suitable places for fitness or entertainment, and his exercise is always limited to walking around the neighborhood -His home grew lots of green plants and other viable vegetables such as scallions or garlic

A student of landscape architecture

An old man in his eighties

-He comes to the park almost chat with his friends because used to do farming when for him to farm. And he thinks spend his leisure time when asked if the site will develop the urban farming.

-She is satisfied with the landscape design of Zhongshan Park and thinks it is a good place for people to relax.

-She thinks the neighborhood has a good green design, and most of them have small gardens, which is good.

A sanitation worker who has lived here for nearly ten years.

-He lives in a dilapidated old building, surrounded by fellow migrants who work as sanitation workers, construction workers and food delivery workers. They all think growing vegetables can save money on food.

Living with urban farming every day

The necessity and impact of urban farming

Sight Seeing

Compared to the previous single landscape type, the expansion of green areas and the introduction of urban farming will bring more types of plants, flowers and animals to the site. In the meantime, people will obviously feel the change of the four seasons.

- linear park - vertical farming - roof garden

Production

A variety of planting methods and the expansion of arable land will bring certain production capacity to the site, which will promote the development of local economy and provide selfsufficiency in food, as well as improving the urban resilllence.

- open market - terrace fileds

- shef and greenhouse

An old woman in her sixties

-She loves farming and grows some vegetables

-She would pick up her grandson from kindergarten at 4:30 p.m. every day. In afternoon, she would spend time in the Zhongshan Park, singing or chatting with This is because she likes to live with green

Education

The development of urban farming will bring some educational value to the site. Children can develop some outdoor classes and learn some basic planting skills. Visitors from other regions will be influenced by the green and healthy lifestyle here.

- seed library - farming studio - agriculture research center