TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization [Hardcover]

This book discusses a spectrum of approaches to designing the food-energy-water nexus at different spatial-urban scales. The book offers a framework for working on the FEW-nexus in a design-led context and integrates the design of urban neighbourhoods and regions with methodologies how to simultaneously engaging residents and stakeholders and evaluating the propositions in a FEW-print, measuring the environmental impact of the different designs. The examples are derived from on the ground practices in Sydney, Tokyo, Detroit, Amsterdam and Belfast.

Part 1. Framework.- Chapter 1 The Moveable Nexus, Transforming Thinking on Cities.- Chapter 2 A moveable Nexus: framework for food-energy-water design and planning.- Chapter 3 M-NEX methodology: a design-led approach to the FEW-Nexus.- Part II Design for food in M-Nex.- Chapter 4 Nature driven planning for the FEW-Nexus in Western Sydney.- Chapter 5 The flexible scaffold: design praxis in the FEW-nexus.- Chapter 6 Spatialised method for analysing the impact of food.- Chapter 7 Synergetic planning and designing with urban FEW-flows: lessons from Rotterdam Nico Tillie.-Chapter 8 Le Fouture de Groningen; towards transformational food-positive landscapes.- Chapter 9 Mapping the FEW-Nexus across cascading scales: contexts for Detroit from region to city.- Chapter 10 Redesigning the Urban Food Life through the Participatory Living Lab Platform - Practices in Suburban Areas of the Tokyo Metropolitan Region.-Chapter 11 The Regenerative City - positive opportunities of coupling urban energy transition with added values to people and environment.-  Chapter 12 Pig farming vs. Solar farming: exploring novel opportunities for the energy transition.-  Chapter 13 Proposal for a database of food-energy-water-nexus plS+