AgroCities, Adaptive Cities: from food revolution to digital evolution

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Giorgia Tucci
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2024/108-109
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 81-92 File size 515 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2024-108007
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Over the last 50 years, the man-made territory has undergone a profound process of transformation to adapt to global policies and respond to the needs of contemporary society, first and foremost the primary need for food. From the green revolution to urban agriculture, the urban and peri-urban context has evolved into true AgroCities. This ‘rural-urban’ relationship has then been enriched with new connotations (innovation, creativity, sustainability) with the technological evolution and the onset of the digital transformation, aimed at rethinking the urban paradigm of the city projected towards the future. The paper summarises these transformations, which are useful for understanding the factors that have influenced contemporary cities, and it outlines possible future scenarios.

Keywords: agrocities; digital transformation; adaptive cities

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Giorgia Tucci, AgroCities, Adaptive Cities: dalla rivoluzione del cibo all’evoluzione digitale in "TERRITORIO" 108-109/2024, pp 81-92, DOI: 10.3280/TR2024-108007