Small Scale Soil-less Urban Agriculture in Europe

Silvio Caputo is a UK-based architect and academic investigating urban resilience, urban green infrastructure and sustainable food planning. He is interested in the dynamics through which urban food growing modifies the urban landscape and the functionality of urban spaces, influences patterns of land use, utilises urban waste as an input and technology, and catalyses social innovation. He has published articles in high-impact journals, and co-edited and co-authored books.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Recent developments in urban agriculture.- Chapter 3. The broader debate on Science, Technology, Society and Food.- Chapter 4. Histories, techniques and technologies of soul-less cultivation.- Chapter 5. Methodology of the study: how success is measured.- Chapter 6. Case studies.- Chapter 7. The web community of soil-less farmers: a case study (authors: Valentina Manente and Silvio Caputo).- Chapter 8. Discussion: analysing the case studies and the wider phenomenon of small scale soil-less urban agriculture.- Chapter 9 – Conclusions and future steps.