CFC-Multiscalar Challenges : Land-Links: Multi-Cities, Agro Landscapes, Hyper-Foods, Inno-Fields. 5 Factors for a Balanced Geo-Urbanity

Abstract

The new contemporary multi-city, the fractal, irregular and networked poly-polis (Gausa 2018), needs the landscape, as a eco-systemic and proactive infrastructure, conceived not only as a network of ‘green open spaces’. The in-between transversal landscape of the new city needs agriculture to ensure its positive and relational conservation. Agriculture, especially if developed in low or medium intensity contexts, requires programmatic innovative mixture and diversity— associated with its uses and crops, but also with an agro-tourism based on zero kilometre hospitality, gastronomy, energy production, digital manufacturing, technical research—to ensure its own resilient livelihood capacity. Creative Food Cycles (CFC) covers all these scales and levels of action—with a socio-cultural activism approach—promoting a strategic and innovative integration, from the territorial and urban perspective to the creative-social dimension and to the scale of product design. The food factor, from a mere productive indicator, becomes an agent inducing new sustainable and innovative processes.