Community Bountiful: Cultivating Activity with Purpose through an Urban Agriculture System

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Community Bountiful: Cultivating Activity with Purpose through an Urban Agriculture System

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title: Community Bountiful: Cultivating Activity with Purpose through an Urban Agriculture System

creator: Jenny Kirouac

subject: Urban agriculture; Urban renewal; Urban gardens, Massachusetts, Lawrence, Designs and plans

description: Resurfacing historic urban patterns, revitalizing local businesses, and weaving an agriculture landscape into the expanded residential fabrics of the postindustrial city can off er a new sense of purpose and community. America’s industrial cities once were hubs for productivity and community. Now these landscapes have suffered neglect and abandonment as toxic postindustrial wastelands.Due to the exit of industry and the growing reliance on private automobile transportation, these cities are experiencing problems with vacant land, deteriorating buildings poor public health, failing education systems, poverty, and social divides. The landscapedesign of community gardens and architecture of community centers, farmer’s markets, celebration spaces, classrooms, and housing can elevate the living and working conditions of long time residents and the newly arrived immigrant communities. By softening the defensive barriers between public and private space, the experience of passing through shared gardens, paths, buildings, and broadened threshold spaces of transition. The strategies explored here can be used to create bountiful moments of community enjoyment and gathering within a revitalized urban setting. Introducing an agriculture system involves adding new networks and spatial configurations that celebrate pedestrian activity therefore creating a new range of opportunities for the lives of community members.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2020

type: Thesis

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language: eng

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