The Edible Urban Landscape: An Exploration for Urban Agriculture landscape design guidelines in Bhopal

Abstract

Urban agriculture (UA) is quite popular now a days globally. It is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food within the city. UA has made a significant impact on cities like Detroit, Boston, Bangkok, Thailand and many others. In India we have Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, etc. which are implementing the practise of UA. Although the UA is important for its food, environmental, social, economic benefits in urban settlements, it is still stressed to get place in urban planning. While sufficient land is not available for UA in cities, there is still vast land area lying vacant. This thesis focus on framing the landscape design guideline in establishing UA in the allocated land and finding innovative solutions for optimum utilization of urban resources.