Urban vertical farms as new urban infrastructures

Titolo Rivista TERRITORIO
Autori/Curatori Marco Migliore, Filippo Oppimitti, Filippo Orsini, Giancarlo Paganin
Anno di pubblicazione 2025 Fascicolo 2024/108-109
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 11 P. 118-128 Dimensione file 465 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2024-108011
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Vertical farming has had a remarkable technical and applicative progression in recent years, since its diffusion could contribute significantly to the achievement, by 2030, of the UN’s global goals. The EU has funded several projects aimed at promoting new models of urban vertical farms, which are reported in this essay. The paper presents a strategy for the implementation of urban vertical farming at the urban scale, as an infrastructural form for the local community, that also became a system of urban regeneration. The implementation strategy, based on the hypothesis of reuse of abandoned or underused urban areas, is tested in the specific context of Milan, with maps and simulations, and shows how vertical farm systems can address the declining per capita agricultural land and meet the growing food demand due to population increases.

L’agricoltura verticale ha conosciuto negli ultimi anni notevoli progressi tecnici e applicativi, anche in ragione del suo possibile contributo al raggiungimento degli obiettivi di sviluppo sostenibile delle Nazioni Unite. L’Unione Europea ha contribuito finanziando diversi progetti. Questo articolo presenta una strategia per l’implementazione dell’agricoltura verticale a livello urbano, come forma infrastrutturale per la comunità locale, che diventa anche un sistema di rigenerazione urbana. La strategia, basata sul riutilizzo di aree urbane abbandonate o sottoutilizzate, viene testata nel contesto specifico di Milano, con mappe e simulazioni, e mostra come i sistemi di ‘vertical farming’ possano far fronte alla diminuzione dei terreni agricoli pro capite e soddisfare la crescente domanda di cibo dovuta all’aumento della popolazione.

Parole chiave:agricoltura urbana; agricoltura verticale; rigenerazione urbana

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Marco Migliore, Filippo Oppimitti, Filippo Orsini, Giancarlo Paganin, Urban vertical farms as new urban infrastructures in "TERRITORIO" 108-109/2024, pp 118-128, DOI: 10.3280/TR2024-108011