3.3 SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES AS AN ECOSYSTEM Cities as sustainable ecosystems play a vital role in the project and how it functions. Communities are not defined by the food that is grown and vice versa. The principles in the book aim to tie these two very different concepts into one, proposing a self-sustained community ecosystem. (Newman and Jennings, 2004) The book delves into various parts of these ecosystems and how they should operate daily. These re used as a guide to formulate the project and integrate all the different elements into one community, as visualised by the graphics shown, with an emphasis on chapters two, six, and nine. Most notably, chapter nine that backs the “slow movement” will be discussed in detail later. (Newman and Jennings, 2004)
Figure 16: Image depicting the transition from traditional farming techniques to more modern vertical farming techniques and how they are incorporated into a sustainable community as an ecosystem [author, 2021]
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