Cultivating Smartcities |
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| Authors: | CJ Lim |
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| Abstract: | On 9 April 2009, Michelle Obama planted the first seedlings of onion, lettuce, peas and peppers in the 102-square-metre (1,100-square-foot) White House Kitchen Garden. She may have planted the green shoots for a smartcity. CJ Lim , author of Smartcities + Eco-warriors (Routledge, 2010), describes sustainable urban developments in the form of smartcities – a new urban exuberance reintegrating cultivated land within an urban economic and ecological context system. These verdant edible edifices of urban spatial theatre are aesthetically and culturally engaging. Soliciting an emotional as well as intellectual response they have the potential to connect with the public and involve them in the architectural possibilities of the city. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | CJ Lim/Studio 8 Architects, Guangming Smartcity, Shenzhen, China, 2007 Central Open Space, Multifunctional Administrative City (MAC), Republic of Korea, 2007 3.3 billion people are living in urban areas global food crisis drop in agricultural production global droughts millions will starve the city-dwelling farmer Urban agriculture Neighbourhood food programmes harvesting crops from the concrete jungle CJ Lim/Studio 8 Architects, Guangming Sustainable Arable Park, Shenzhen, China, 2008 water management mankind's most serious challenge of the 21st century ready-made natural sustainable drainage system chlorophyll's photosynthetic properties Second World War victory garden promote the environmental and social. |
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