Urban rooftop farming : sustainability, practices and stakeholder perception on case studies in Europe (Torino, Paris, Rotterdam)

0 Preface

0.1 Motivations and assumptions

0.2 Research objectives

0.3 Methodology

0.4 Bibliographic research on Rooftop Farming

0.5 Qualitative investigation on case studies

0.6 Outline of the thesis

1 From evolution to innovation

1.1 The new urban agenda - from development to wellbeing

1.2 The innovation

1.3 The social innovation

1.4 The introduction of rooftop farming in the contemporary city

1.5 The green movement

1.6 Urban agriculture: From greening to farming

1.7 From the ground to the roofs

1.8 Rooftop farming typologies

1.9 Typologies according to the spaces and technology

1.10 Typologies according to the purpose of project

2 Rooftop gardens: Innovative tools for sustainability.

2.1 Social dimension

2.2 Food production social benefits

2.3 Social issues of green infrastructures for urban regeneration

2.4 Benefits

2.5 Limits

2.6 Community empowerment and well - being

2.7 Empowerment

2.8 Education

2.9 Well - being

2.10 Confrontation of empirical studies on community gardening

2.11 Environmental issues

2.12 Green building

2.13 Urban microclimate

2.14 Resource management and biodiversity

2.15 Environmental issues related to food production and distribution

2.16 Economic issues of rooftop farming

2.17 Rooftop gardens for production

2.18 Rooftop gardens for image return

2.19 Rooftop gardens that increase the real estate value

3 Urban policies and strategies on urban rooftop farming

3.1 Worldwide cases of strategies for simplifying the process of implementation of rooftop gardens

3.2 Policies and strategies at global level

3.3 Adaption to climate change

3.4 The new urban agenda - Smart cities

3.5 Policies and strategies at local level

3.6 Innovative urban governance

3.7 Multi stakeholder processes

3.8 Shared administration

3.9 Insight from 3 case studies: Urban governance and policies in Torino, Paris and Rotterdam

3.10 Torino

3.11 Urban, social and economic context

3.12 Local policies connected to rooftop farming

3.13 Paris

3.14 Urban, social and economic context

3.15 Local policies connected to rooftop farming

3.16 Rotterdam

3.18 Urban, social and economic context

3.19 Local policies connected to rooftop farming

4 Investigation on processes and stakeholder related to rooftop farming

4.1 Case Studies: The process of implementation of OrtiAlti, Dakakker, Topager

4.2 OrtiAlti Ozanam

4.3 Dakakker

4.4 Vignoles gymnasium community garden

4.5 Process of implementation of rooftop gardens

4.6 Comparison of processes between case study projects

4.7 Stakeholders

4.8 Perception of the stakeholders about rooftop farming sustainability

5 Impact on the community

5.1 The Methodology

5.2 Personal values and motivations of project participants

5.3 Social cohesion

5.4 Social impact and benefits

Conclusions

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