Stadsplaneringsprojekt Uganda

It’s there -farming in the city conceptualises a project with its focus on the potential of urban agricultural processes and activities in Uganda’s capital Kampala. It investigates if processes connected to urban agriculture could work as an overall principle to organise and develop a city. Thus if processes connected to urban agriculture could work as a design and planning device tool to generate spatial, economical, ecological and recreational values over time.

The overall design element is the identification and definition of green spaces and their connections. The green spaces within the informal settlement are unified in a system that could be further connected in a network of green structures supplying the city with leisure, production and service space (ecological services). These open and green fields, spots and spaces, could be used in many different ways and developed over time according to changing needs. The green structure created can for example be practically used for new infrastructure that is necessary, as water supply, drainage, irrigation, infiltration, animal and plant habitat, and communications.

It’s there -farming in the city argues that identification, definition and activation of green fields, spots and spaces for urban agriculture purposes in the informal settlements could be a coherent spatial device tool for managing urban growth in Kampala. These green spaces could be the structuring element around which the new city and neighbourhood develops. To form physical facilities and demarcated areas where these processes and activities can be carried out is a way of securing existing spatial and environmental qualities while still be able to upgrade the existing condition in the human settlements of Kampala. When the long-term re-disposition and densification of the building mass within a certain area is taking place it will be around this revitalized and protected green space. The openness created will be needed in a future heavily populated urban context.