HAT
Hyping Agriculture and Transit (HAT) in 15-minute Cities (15mC) – Food-growing public transport-oriented communities driving urban transitions as green Proximity Oriented Developments (PODs)
- Category
- Project
- Call
- DUT Call 2023
- Duration
- –
- Project coordinator
- Stockholm University
Cities today have a global reach and rely on imports of food and fuel from far lands. Automobility as predominant mobility culture produces urban sprawl that causes negative environmental impacts and contributes to atomized living and loosening of community ties. Automobile travel depends on scarce resources and is the largest source of carbon emissions and air pollution. Urban sprawl furthermore entails losses of biomass including biocrops, while destructuring natural systems. The Hyping Agriculture and Transit (HAT) project explores the potential of urban agriculture and food systems, placemaking and green city visions combined with integration of public transport and Transit-Oriented Developments (TOD) as leitmotif for urban transitions towards green proximity oriented development.
The HAT project will generate new urban visions, geographical, urban design and architectural knowledge and evidence of potential of urban agriculture and food production in 15mCs and TODs and identify food production and distribution patterns and spatial requirements for circular resources flows between urban, suburban, peri-urban, and rural areas. It seeks to enhance planning and urban design practices with new planning tools for food production in 15mCs and TODs and green PODs that includes various types of urban agriculture (community gardens, rood gardens, vertical farms, etc.) in a European and Canadian context, promote and publicize urban agriculture-friendly urban design solutions and develop business models for urban development of green 15mC, to support food-related initiatives with community gardens, indoor and vertical farms, and galvanize grassroot actions to inspire placemaking events related to food.
The HAT project will produce empirical evidence and design knowledge on urban agriculture and TODs in the 15mC framework, seeking to decrease the need to import food and fuel, as well as the dependence on the automobile.
Canada
Estonia
Portugal
Sweden
Concordia University, Green&Growing AB, Guidance to Zero AB, Iscte - Instituto Universitário De Lisboa, IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet AB, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Tallinna Tehnikaülikool, Vegger Sverige AB
Camara Municipal De Lisboa, Communauté Métropolitaine De Montréal, Ekerö kommun, Mainor As, Mainor Ülemiste As, Oü Click & Grow, Tallinna Linn, The University of Western Ontario, Vivre En Ville
Contact
Anders Wästfelt
anders.wastfelt@humangeo.su.se