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Cultivating new meaning in the urban landscape : increasing food security and social capital through urban ecology : research article

2013· article· en· W140309479 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Dominique Rossi Breetzke, Christina Breed

Bibliographic record

VenueSuid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir kunsgeskiedenis · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicUrban Agriculture and Sustainability
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAllotmentUrbanizationUrban agriculturePopulationSociologyLandscape designFood securityEcologyGeographyEnvironmental ethicsAgricultureCivil engineeringEngineeringArchaeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Landscape architecture is a design discipline and a form of art. It is an art which grows, transforms, dies and revives itself in engagement with the physical world. It needs, as a design discipline, to engage with these multiple layers of the physical world to support healthy living, beauty, renewal and even survival. The environmental and social benefits urban nature provides and relies on have in recent times been redefined as 'ecosystem services'. As part of this discourse, landscape design is an art which is becoming all the more relevant for the physical world in the wake of escalating population growth, urbanization and climate change. There are still however left-over voids of land within our settlements that can become valuable for social, economic and environmental purposes. The paper explores the possibility of using these for allotment community gardening through a case study in Sunnyside, Pretoria. An abandoned stretch of land along the Walker Spruit served as a model for testing the hypothesis of increasing food security and social capital through a design that embraces urban ecology. The literature review provides numerous ideas and examples to substantiate the rationale of the approach. Guerrilla Gardening is investigated as a response to recent concepts of ecological justice and politics. The allotment culture is revisited as re-explored in recent times in Britain, Canada and Switzerland. Subsequently the concept of green infrastructure is used to explore the theory of a Continuous Productive Urban Landscape. The findings suggest that allotment culture and permaculture can be ways of reconnecting people with urban nature. The design concept of the 'three natures', builds on this underlying idea and propose how it can become a physical reality. As a result, a new identity that ties in with the original genius of place can unite two very distinct neighbourhoods in the city: Clydesdale and Sunnyside East, while providing the required social and biophysical services sustainably. The study upholds that as urban development continues to strive for greater resilience in the future, community involvement can only be central to its vision. Cultivando nuevos valores en el paisaje urbano : incrementando la seguridad alimenticia y el bienestar social por medio de la ecologia urbana La arquitectura de paisaje es una disciplina del diseno y tambien una forma de arte. Como arte crece, se transforma, muere y revive en su compromiso con el medio fisico. Pero necesita, como disciplina del diseno, entramarse con las diferentes esferas del este medio fisico para promover una vida saludable, la riqueza estetica, la renovacion y hasta la sobrevivencia. Los beneficios ambientales y sociales que la naturaleza urbana provee y en los que depende, se han definido ultimamente como 'servicios eco-sistemicos'. Como parte de esta postura, la arquitectura del paisaje cobra aun mas relevancia, considerando tambien el rapido crecimiento demografico a nivel mundial, la urbanizacion y los cambios climaticos. En nuestros centros urbanos conviven todavia espacios desarrollados con areas vacantes, estas ultimas representan un valor potencial en el aspecto social, economico y como servicios eco-sistemicos. Este articulo explora las posibilidades que estos espacios ofrecen para la agricultura urbana comunitaria desde un caso especifico en Sunnyside, Pretoria. Un terreno lineal en desuso a lo largo del Walker spruit (pequeno curso de agua) sirve de modelo para analizar esta hipotesis de incrementar la seguridad alimenticia y el bienestar social a traves de un diseno comprometido con la ecologia urbana. El movimiento activista 'Guerrilla Gardening' (guerrilla jardinera), ha sido investigado como respuesta a los ultimos conceptos de justicia ecologica y politica. La agricultura urbana es revisada tal como ha sido reevaluada recientemente en Gran Bretana, Canada y Suiza. A si mismo el concepto de infraestructura verde es usado para explorar la teoria de un Paisaje Urbano Productivo y Continuo. Los resultados sugieren que la agricultura urbana y la permacultura pueden ser vehiculos de reconexion entre la naturaleza y la gente. El concepto de diseno de las tres naturalezas, se basa en esta idea y en como puede convertirse en una realidad fisica. Como resultado, una nueva identidad en harmonia con el espiritu del lugar puede hermanar dos barrios diferentes de la ciudad, Clydesdale y Sunnyside Este, a la vez que proveyendo los requeridos servicios sociales y biofisicos sustentablemente. Este estudio defiende el hecho de que como el desarrollo urbano continua su busqueda de mayor autonomia, en el futuro la participacion de la comunidad solo puede ser fundamental para este fin.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.014

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.007
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.261
Teacher spread0.229 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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