Abstract
The Sustainable Development Agenda has been launched due to the global crisis of food, energy, water and so on, which was approved by the United Nations (UN) in 2015. The scope of the agenda revolves around the sustainability, which is the central concept of its goals. Inevidently, the Covid-19 pandemic might have led to a growing global tendency in the planning and design practices for encouraging Sustainable Development Goals to be adopted to urban areas for becoming more resilient. Zero Hunger is one of the targets of the agenda, which aims to alter food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty. Although food crisis has always been the part of sustainable development, it is obvious that Covid-19 might have brought more pressure on secure food and access. So, the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed how the global food systems can become vulnerable. Beside various design models, integrated urban farm model is one of the short-term responses to the food crisis, which has already been adapted to the existing building stock in some parts of the World. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the site selection parameters of the model and to make several site suggestions in the city of Istanbul for the application of this architectural practice. Since Istanbul is a metropolis that is densely urbanized, which is lacking of sufficient local urban farming, it is going to be a new approach as an alternative for contributing to the sustainability of the city.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2022 Special Focus—Constructing New Environments for Living, Work and Play
KEYWORDS
Sustainable Development Goals, Integrated Urban Farm, Site Selection, Istanbul
