“An Urban Renovation for Agricultural Value.”
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The over-usage of water supplies and land resources is leading the world towards an unsustainable future. The irrigation of golf courses within Maricopa County uses more than twice that of the next largest water-user of the country. This reckless water-consumption must be addressed in order to combat depleting supplies.
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These unreadable landscapes possess a vast amount of potential, so we must not blindly follow the adulterated path that man has created.
A land’s usefulness
By reducing the rate of consumption, the natural hydrological cycle will be completed once again.
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Similar to water, land is a resource that must be considered in sustainability. The growing food-desert problem and sprawling habits of the Phoenix area contrasts with it’s expansive golf courses. Our priorities are shifting away from golf and towards a need for a self-sustaining system of water-usage and food supply. synthesis 2
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Golf courses within the Phoenix area provide the perfect foundation for urban agriculture, because they contain the preexisting infrastructure of water-supply, land coverage, and soil amenities.
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By renovating golf courses into urban agriculture, not only will the city of Phoenix improve, but the overall global effort towards resource depletion will advance.
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EDS 401: Fall 2018 Design Synthesis
Student: Mitchell Cutcliffe Instructor: Nicholas Shekerjian