Strong focus on infrastructural requirements for successful urban agriculture, such as public policy and planning frameworks, business models and social networksCovers developments in key technologies such as rooftop and vertical farming, as well as waste managementIncludes case studies of particular commodities, including horticultural produce, livestock and forestry

Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located ResearchThis book is the long awaited sequel to "Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities"."Second Nature Urban Agriculture" updates and extends the authors' concept for introducing productive urban landscapes, including urban agriculture, into cities as essential elements of sustainable urban infrastructure. It reviews rec...

This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs to the city dwelling consumers. The revolutionary and innovative concepts put forth in this book have potential to sh...

This wise and delightful guide to the benefits of meditation practices will help listeners cultivate a calm, peaceful, and enlightened lifestyle. Drawing from his years of experience as a teacher, spiritual leader, and avid meditator, Edward Viljoen directs listeners down the path to enlightenment using wisdom such as:Mindfulness practices—Train yourself to become absorbed in a purposefully chosen activity.Sitting practices—Reduce the use of mental and physical resources as m...