Print Email Facebook Twitter Urban Farming in the Western Garden City Title Urban Farming in the Western Garden City: A study to the employment and benefits of urban farming techniques in three neighbouhroods of Amsterdam Author Valdes Troncoso, Joaquin (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor Smit, M.J. (mentor) Adema, F. (graduation committee) Tsui, T.P.Y. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Date 2021-02-03 Abstract The linear food supply chain is putting significant pressures on our resources and our environment. Moreover, global warming is leading to climate change, making our environment more uncertain and challenging food safety around the globe. Therefore new ways of producing food locally need to be researched. This paper investigates how food can be produced within the boundaries of the city of Amsterdam. It studies the suitability of different urban farming techniques within the infrastructure of the neighbourhood through three different scenarios. The scenarios are based on the three pillars of sustainability (social, economic and environmental) and measure a set of indicators (food production, monetary income, job creation, water retention, energy production, esthetic values, social values and biodiversity). The results of the scenarios are afterwards compared to the social and spatial needs of the neighbourhood, from which the most suitable scenario can be chosen. The research has been done for three neighbourhoods from the New West borough in Amsterdam: Geuzenveld, Osdorp Midden and Middenveldsche Akkerpolder. The results show that for Osdorp Midden and Geuzenveld, the scenario focusing on economics is the most suitable for helping with the high rate of poverty and unemployment in the neighbourhood. On the other hand, for Middelveldsche Akkerpolder the scenario focused on creating social values can help strengthening the missing social ties and create a sense of community in the neighbourhood. Subject Urban FarmingCircularityValue CreationUrban MetabolismNeighbourhoodUrban PlanningNieuw WestAmsterdam To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a8f23924-b4e3-43de-8205-497bea680335 Coordinates 52.356300, 4.809600 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2021 Joaquin Valdes Troncoso Files PDF 4264282_researchpaper.pdf 6.65 MB PDF 4264282_P5presentation_.pdf 43.09 MB PDF 4264282Researchmethods.pdf 155.47 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a8f23924-b4e3-43de-8205-497bea680335/datastream/OBJ2/view