Overview
Presents a design oriented book about the development of food roofs in Rio de Janeiro
Provides an original case study for producing food in slums
Offers a description of the design and realization process of the FoodRoof
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
One important change in the Brazilian policies is the Pacification. In recent years the government has invested in creating safer and more livable favelas. This generally starts with creating a UPP, a police post at a central location, from where the safety is maintained. Once this has been established the PAC, the government organisation for accelerating urban development in the favelas, starts to make plans to improve the quality of life in the favela: drinking water, electricity, sewage system and other basic systems. It is essential to include the growth of food in their policies.
Secondly, the discourse in urban agriculture shifts from the early stage in which every initiative is interesting, food production is a social activity and an estimated contribution to sustainability, towards the question how much food is actually produced within the city boundaries. Analyses show that the amount produced is very little. The follow-up question is how more food could be produced in the city? This is obviously also a matter of space. Current urban concepts do not offer enough space for food production and this implies new concepts need to be found. In the context of the favelas these new spaces need to be found on roofs.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Rob Roggema, Landscape Architect, is an international renowned design-expert on climate adaptation, renewable energy planning and urban agriculture. He holds positions at several universities in the Netherlands and Australia, State and Municipal governments and design consultancies. Dr. Roggema is the Director of Cittaideale, a research office for adaptive design and planning. In 2008 he received the scientific award for best paper at the Sustainable Building conference in Melbourne.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Roofs of Rio de Janeiro
Book Subtitle: The Pavao-Pavaozinho and Cantagalo Case Study
Editors: Rob Roggema
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56739-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56737-2Published: 15 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85988-0Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56739-6Published: 06 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 201
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 146 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Agriculture, Urban Studies/Sociology, Food Science, Development Studies