Abstract: Urban industrial heritage sites activated through conservation and reuse have been considered to play a vital role in urban landscape, and they can be effectively transformed into public spaces extensively exploited by urban residents. The regeneration of urban industrial heritage has been increasingly discussed from the perspective of landscape worldwide, thus laying a solid basis for this paper. In general, by reviewing the evolving understanding of industrial heritage, this paper analyzes post-industrial landscape and urban industrial heritage as historic urban landscape. On this basis, three crucial aspects are proposed in order to conclude the essence of urban industrial heritage and existing problem of research on the landscape regeneration of post-industrial sites. Most importantly, the study relating to human-environment interaction on renewed sites based on the quantitative method has aroused less attention of professionals. Accordingly, the new interdisciplinary exploration of landscape architecture and human factors has been triggered, thus shifting the views from professionals’ subjective planning and design to individuals’ objective perception and assessment with the use of bio-sensory techniques. Lastly, through the quantitative and qualitative analysis, the whole process and tendency of landscape regeneration of urban industrial heritage sites with recommendations for the future relevant research are creatively indicated to provide valuable reference for the further exploration of post-industrial landscape.Abstract: Urban industrial heritage sites activated through conservation and reuse have been considered to play a vital role in urban landscape, and they can be effectively transformed into public spaces extensively exploited by urban residents. The regeneration of urban industrial heritage has been increasingly discussed from the perspective of landscape wo...Show More
Abstract: The city of Addis Ababa is in the rapid urbanization era which leaves the city with less farm land, less green cover, unemployment, increase in market price of food and increasing greenhouse effect. Since, Food supply and production are still from the rural parts. And urban farming is showing potentials to solve these problems. There are many practices and advancements that take the idea of urban farming beyond possibility and make it wholly sustainable in the city. This research on the contribution of architectural design concepts for sustainable urban farming in selected urban farms from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Has a main objective of assessing and evaluating urban farms on the selected criteria of sustainability, then identify the problem areas and prospects to forward architectural solutions. To achieve this goal six criterions were devised, all based on the three pillars of sustainability (ecological, social, and economical), with the help of reference materials covered in the literature review. The case study method was helpful to gather, analyze and evaluate input data. In this research it was evident that most of the urban farm in Addis Ababa didn’t fully achieve the sustainability criteria. For an urban farm to be wholly sustainable a variety of systems must be in place. The systems must range from different growing methods, to a multifunctionality of systems involving and educating the public, and they must utilize different aspects of the site. It is also equally important that the systems are interdependent and work toward functioning as a larger system.Abstract: The city of Addis Ababa is in the rapid urbanization era which leaves the city with less farm land, less green cover, unemployment, increase in market price of food and increasing greenhouse effect. Since, Food supply and production are still from the rural parts. And urban farming is showing potentials to solve these problems. There are many pract...Show More
