This chapter suggests an opportunity for reimagining streets as productive foraging landscapes, through the intentional planting of perennial plant and tree crops. This work builds upon a study addressing emerging trends in urban food production, in which implications for designers were identified, isolated, and projected forward. As a strategy, the re-framing of public street landscapes as an edible commons offers an accessible, even quotidian, response to resource scarcity. In the face of a changing climate, and attendant pressures on food systems, however, these types of everyday interventions have the potential to scaleScale up in meaningful ways. A case is made for the inclusion of design and planning in producing edible public landscapes along roads, by identifying some of the problems and potentials for linking streets and food production. Designers have an important role to fill here, in translating the built environmentBuilt environment to growers, identifying planning barriers, and presenting the opportunities provided by productive urban landscapesUrban landscapes to key stakeholder groups. Six approaches to street tree success are identified, shared through real-world examples when possible and by generally highlighting the role of design thinking. In sharing these examples, and then identifying themes that emerge at the intersectionIntersections of DIY urban agricultureUrban agriculture and design for resource scarcity, this chapter makes a case for more productive street tree interventions. Finally, edible street tree canopies and productive understories are cast as a utilitarian response to bolstering food access in urban areas.

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Street Trees

  • Carey Clouse

摘要

This chapter suggests an opportunity for reimagining streets as productive foraging landscapes, through the intentional planting of perennial plant and tree crops. This work builds upon a study addressing emerging trends in urban food production, in which implications for designers were identified, isolated, and projected forward. As a strategy, the re-framing of public street landscapes as an edible commons offers an accessible, even quotidian, response to resource scarcity. In the face of a changing climate, and attendant pressures on food systems, however, these types of everyday interventions have the potential to scaleScale up in meaningful ways. A case is made for the inclusion of design and planning in producing edible public landscapes along roads, by identifying some of the problems and potentials for linking streets and food production. Designers have an important role to fill here, in translating the built environmentBuilt environment to growers, identifying planning barriers, and presenting the opportunities provided by productive urban landscapesUrban landscapes to key stakeholder groups. Six approaches to street tree success are identified, shared through real-world examples when possible and by generally highlighting the role of design thinking. In sharing these examples, and then identifying themes that emerge at the intersectionIntersections of DIY urban agricultureUrban agriculture and design for resource scarcity, this chapter makes a case for more productive street tree interventions. Finally, edible street tree canopies and productive understories are cast as a utilitarian response to bolstering food access in urban areas.