Post-pandemic architecture: a critical review of the expected feasibility of skyscraper-integrated vertical farming (SIVF)

Shahda, Merhan M.; Megahed, Naglaa A.

doi:10.1080/17452007.2022.2109123

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“…This innovative approach maximizes space efficiency, enabling the cultivation of a greater quantity of crops within a smaller area. While vertical farming systems were initially considered futuristic, the disruptions in the supply chain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic spurred the rapid development of urban farming, with a primary focus on ensuring global food security [18,19].…”

Section: Vertical Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Horticulture: A Cutting-Edge Strategy and Essential for the Future

Swetha,

Devi,

Kumar

2024

IJECC

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Urban Horticulture is a key solution to rapid population growth, urbanization, food crisis and climate change. According to FAO reports, projections indicate that by 2050, the global urban population will exceed 9.7 billion, nearly doubling the current 3.5 billion. In the case of India, UN World Population Prospects foresee that by 2050, 40.76% of the country's population will inhabit urban areas. Considering the above statistics, we can estimate the burden on rural production system to meet increasing demands of fruits and vegetables in urban markets. So, urban horticulture could be the saviour to avoid food crisis and inflation of market. Urban horticulture, with its roots dating back to the mid-19th century, has gained momentum worldwide and can potentially mitigate the looming threats of food crises and market inflation. There are various types of urban agriculture like, kitchen gardening, rooftop gardening, vertical farming, container gardening, etc. Multiple auras of crops can be cultivated in the minimal available space, right from herbs, vegetables and fruits to aromatic and medicinal plants. There are considerable number of advantages of urban farming, like, providing employment and daily wages to poor farmers, educating children, strengthening the community, improving social and emotional wellbeing and environmental justice to tackle climate change. Many cities across the world are practicing urban farming and have achieved success in production, marketing and educating people. While numerous cities globally have embraced urban farming, achieving success in production, marketing, and education, India is still in the nascent stages of this practice. It is imperative for both governmental and private entities to accord greater importance to and invest in the promotion and harnessing of the profitability of urban horticulture in the country.

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Section: Vertical Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Horticulture: A Cutting-Edge Strategy and Essential for the Future

Swetha,

Devi,

Kumar

2024

IJECC

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“…At the same time, integration with current innovations and technologies such as automation and the Internet of Things (IoT) was discussed regarding the transformation into smart agriculture (Oh & Lu, 2023;Saad et al, 2021). Additionally, Shahda and Megahed (2022) proposed that the vertical garden is an alternative solution that should be integrated into skyscrapers as an innovative approach to respond to post-pandemic issues. Other technologies and new approaches that can enhance the performance of urban agriculture practices also were studied, such as the solar-assisted hydroponic farm (Xu et al, 2022) and the new governance approach for managing ecosystem services to support small-scale urban green infrastructure (Razzaghi Asl & Pearsall, 2022).…”

Section: Innovation and Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Landscape of Urban Agriculture and Covid-19 Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Sawangchaeng,

Bamrungkhul

2024

JARS

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During the Covid-19 pandemic, urban agriculture, which refers to various forms of agricultural production within or surrounding the city, gained more attention from scholars worldwide. Given the multiple benefits associated with urban agriculture, these practices were adopted to address the adverse impacts in various dimensions, such as food security, health, and well-being. Simultaneously, urban agriculture also was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, influencing the practice from both theoretical and practical perspectives, which expanded the scope of research in this field across various disciplines and perspectives. Consequently, it is difficult to track the topic and scope of the current research status as a basis for developing research about urban agriculture in the future. However, a systematic review that consolidates the current state of knowledge to support advanced research had not yet been conducted. Our paper aimed to fill this gap by employing a bibliometric analysis of articles in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) to examine the research landscape of urban agriculture and Covid-19. VOSviewer was the main platform adopted to conduct the bibliometric analysis in order to construct the research landscape based on three scopes, namely, main contributors (authors, sources, organisations, and countries), hot issues, and research themes. The analysis revealed that the WoSCC had indexed a total of 214 articles, with an increasing number of publications from 2020 to 2022. Although studies on urban agriculture and Covid-19 were conducted worldwide, authors and organisations from developed countries, especially the United States, were the primary contributors to article publications. The journal “Sustainability” was the main source of published articles about urban agriculture and Covid-19, receiving the highest number of citations. Research on urban agriculture and Covid-19 was conducted under eight crucial research themes associated with the food sector, benefits for health and well-being, climate change and air quality, marginalised communities, practising the community garden, practising home gardening, lessons learned from the policies and projects, and innovation and technology. Despite research being conducted on urban agriculture and the Covid-19 pandemic within different themes and geographical contexts, the majority of studies primarily focused on the benefits and behaviour change associated with urban agriculture practices to mitigate the negative impact of Covid-19 in terms of the food system and mental health. This finding is consistent with the keywords co-occurrence analysis, which identified “food security/insecurity” and “resilience” as the main hot issues. In addition, most of the other high-frequency keywords also were associated with the food system and well-being. Based on these findings, research on urban agriculture during Covid-19 generally concentrated on the crucial problems associated with Covid-19, especially for the food sector and health, rather than urbanization, which had been the primary focus in earlier times. Finally, we provide recommended ways forward for future studies in this field by offering insights into the current scope of the research landscape on urban agriculture and Covid-19, which had been neglected in previous studies.

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“…Until 2019, it represented 6% of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP), and it is projected to reach 14.7% by 2030 [ 3 ]. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of the building and construction sectors is instrumental in recovery and stimulus plans, offering a new pathway [ 1 ] by improving their environmental and health sustainability [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmentally Responsive Materials for Building Envelopes: A Review on Manufacturing and Biomimicry-Based Approaches

2023

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Buildings must adapt and respond dynamically to their environment to reduce their energy loads and mitigate environmental impacts. Several approaches have addressed responsive behavior in buildings, such as adaptive and biomimetic envelopes. However, biomimetic approaches lack sustainability consideration, as conducted in biomimicry approaches. This study provides a comprehensive review of biomimicry approaches to develop responsive envelopes, aiming to understand the connection between material selection and manufacturing. This review of the last five years of building construction and architecture-related studies consisted of a two-phase search query, including keywords that answered three research questions relating to the biomimicry and biomimetic-based building envelopes and their materials and manufacturing and excluding other non-related industrial sectors. The first phase focused on understanding biomimicry approaches implemented in building envelopes by reviewing the mechanisms, species, functions, strategies, materials, and morphology. The second concerned the case studies relating to biomimicry approaches and envelopes. Results highlighted that most of the existing responsive envelope characteristics are achievable with complex materials requiring manufacturing processes with no environmentally friendly techniques. Additive and controlled subtractive manufacturing processes may improve sustainability, but there is still some challenge to developing materials that fully adapt to large-scale and sustainability needs, leaving a significant gap in this field.

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Post-pandemic architecture: a critical review of the expected feasibility of skyscraper-integrated vertical farming (SIVF)

Cited by 16 publications

References 94 publications

Urban Horticulture: A Cutting-Edge Strategy and Essential for the Future

Urban Horticulture: A Cutting-Edge Strategy and Essential for the Future

Global Landscape of Urban Agriculture and Covid-19 Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Environmentally Responsive Materials for Building Envelopes: A Review on Manufacturing and Biomimicry-Based Approaches

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