Analysis of Urban Design Project
Project year: 2017
Sw: Autocad, SketchUp, Adobe Photoshop, Shadow Analysis Tool
Due to rapid urbanization, the quality of urban areas has changed on various aspects – in environmental, social as well as economic ways. Urban Food Gardens appears to be a sustainable city practice which can offer a different use of the land, since multiple functions can be integrated in densely populated areas and improve the quality of the surrounding environment. The aim of this study is to propose a new urban order where improved environmental, social and economic aspects can be achieved through Urban Agriculture (UA) practices. It also analyses and proposes a design of two different strategies on Urban Food Community Gardening in the area of Broomielaw in Glasgow. In the first strategy, area A (10.40 ha), small blocks were designed that feature allotment-type community gardens. In this case, the residents of each block separately will decide if and who can have access to the block. In the middle of this area an Urban Public Park was created, which has the size of a usual Glasgow square. In the second strategy, area B (17.95 ha), the typology of small blocks is different as they have shared blocks gardens. In this case, there are pedestrian pathways (west-east) giving locals and visitors the opportunity to pass through the site. In the middle of area B, a corporate Urban Park was designed inside a superblock. Finally, the main conclusion of this study is that when the same approach (Urban Food Community Gardening) is adopted in the same city but in different areas within it, their construction should take different urban forms, eventually providing everyone with different outcomes in terms of environmental, social and economic benefits.
