Cities, Agriculture and Changing Landscapes in Urban Milieu: The case of Rome

The aim of this paper is to examine the characteristics and the dynamics that characterize urban agriculture in the case of Rome. We summarize in an evolutionary approach the stylized facts of the relationship between town and the context of agricultural production in order to propose a taxonomy of the types of urban agriculture. The effort proposed here is a preliminary analysis of urban agriculture through a system of criteria for the classification of the distribution of the functional and relational features of agricultural activities in urban phenomenon. These interpretative categories attempt to reconstruct the causal relationships that translate agricultural production models (farms’ data, legal forms, use of natural resources, localization), in specific forms in the spatial and functional urban dimension - physical and social - and their role in territorial milieu. On the theoretical level this analysis is embedded in the co-evolutionary paradigm and looks to the landscape as the result of interactions between the environmental system and the action of human who lives and uses the territory. This typization ultimately still seems a goal to achieve, this is the first step towards the construction of an interpretative and vocabulary typological then be systematize with the morphological data and those of land use.

Keywords: Urban agriculture, milieu, rural urban relationship, landscape, policy and planning, Rome

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Aurora Cavallo, Benedetta Di Donato, Rossella Guadagno, Davide Marino, Cities, Agriculture and Changing Landscapes in Urban Milieu: The case of Rome in "RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'" 1/2015, pp 79-97, DOI: 10.3280/RISS2015-001006