Professor CJ Lim -FoodCity

“I want us all to go back to a more poetic way of living.”

Food City is a polemic research project which investigates the urban landscape in the context of food. Professor Lim’s interest in urban agriculture stems from a project of an eco-city which he participated in 15 years ago in southern China. In his view food issues were and continue to be under-represented in the public realm.

Food in architecture is the more important nowadays when increasing numbers of people migrate to cities, and the cities are not prepared for it. Professor Lim commented that it is imperative for governments to work with a wide pool of urban stakeholders to establish ways for improving urban well-being. According to Professor Lim, and based on findings from Brazil, it is actually cheaper to keep a country’s citizens healthy, rather than pay their medical bills. Political discourse and the emphasis on activism are important characteristics of Food City.

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According to UNFPA

2009 : 3.3 billion inhabitants in cities

2030: 5 billion inhabitants in cities

Food production to fall by 40%

The smartcity proposes the reintegration of cultivated land within an urban economical and the establishment of an ecological symbiosis between nature and built form.