URBAN AGRICULTURE AS A TOOL FOR URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND ALLOTMENT GARDEN

Abstract

Mechanization and industrialization in agriculture, especially in the 1950s, attracted the rural population in urban areas. The increase in human population has consistently forced the physical capabilities world cities in terms of housing, recreation, working and transportation. Cities have long been facing intensifying structured areas in the mentioned process, where they at first grew vertically. The cities, which have reached their vertical limits, begun to expand and sprawl horizontally towards their peripheries. Urban areas, which have great impacts on the structural changes and transformations of rural areas and thus destructing natural resources and cultural values there, cause rural to be exposed to the housing activities and conflicting administrative authorities. The cities that develop by swallowing the rural areas and form the fringes cause problems in firstly the destruction of the agricultural areas which are important in their feeding and the feeding of the rapidly growing cities. Urban agriculture is very important for the future of cities and their sustainability. In the present study, views of forefront architects and urban planners are evaluated on urban agriculture, relationship between urban sustainability and urban sustainability, general overview of urban agriculture in some world cities and a form of urban agriculture “Allotment Garden” are emphasised on.