10 posts tagged urban
Modular Markets
Redesign Your Farmers’ Market Finalist
Alastair Warren, Blake Richardson, Bruno Wickes
(via GOOD)
The Urban Field Farm StopThis entry contemplates an innovative urban distribution system for fresh farm product to urban centers. As a complement to the typical destination market, the Urban Field Farm Stop concept inverts the traditional preconception of “market” and envisions the entire city map as a kind of decentralized farmers market, an Urban Field of fresh farm product integrated directly with the mass transit circulation system of the city. Select bus stops along central bus routes are reinvented as individual Farm Stops within this citywide Urban Field network.
The New City Center of Urban FarmingThe New City Center of Urban Farming (NCCUF) is the new information and food hub for the Los Angeles neighborhoods. This NCCUF and its four elements of demonstrative production (greenhouse), distribution (farmers market), processing (data center) and education (information center) centered around farming, both crops and data will feeding the new idea of rural and healthy living into metropolitan lifestyles.
Farm on WheelsFarm on Wheels is a program that brings locally grown produce to the people of L.A. County. The program selects fresh fruits and vegetables from local farmers and distributes the produce through a network of farm trucks. To engage more people in the consumption of fresh foods and support local and urban agriculture, Farm on Wheels creates a simplified and convenient food distribution network between farmers and consumers.
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