FARMING IS BACK IN TOWN - L’AGRICOLTURA URBANA COME FORMA DELLO SPAZIO PUBBLICO

Over the last few years we have witnessed processes of integration between urban and rural elements, which express themselves through the phenomenon of urban agriculture. These processes consist of the increasingly frequent use of enclosed urban land of varied size for different agricultural activities managed with different methods. It is possible to single out specific potentialities in these processes: the food and environmental benefits related to neighbourhood production and to the direct rapport between urban and natural spaces; the possibility of working on the design of new public spaces, as places of transition between rural-productive and urban-residential environments; the social effects on the life quality of the communities involved, which have new opportunities of cultural and recreational regeneration; and the possibility of activating regeneration and recycling processes of former productive land.