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Research Methodology This thesis aims to develop urban and architectural strategies which can be implemented across multiple sites in Singapore, to inform how existing urban environments can be adapted to cultivate food-secure communities. This work first seeks to understand the threats to Singapore’s food security, as well as current urban agriculture practices, which serve as a basis to establish the motivations for alternative solutions. By critiquing existing methods and recognizing their benefits and limitations, a new paradigm can be proposed, which seeks to reinterpret the concept of food security as more than just an issue of food production. The urban and architectural approaches utilises these concepts in exploring how decentralisation and phased development can ensure Singapore achieves its national food security objectives, as well as changing public mindset towards food production and sustainable consumption. Finally, a prototype will be envisioned within a chosen site in Singapore, demonstrating the proposed strategies in a typical context, with the idea that this prototype can be propagated throughout the island.
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