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Question: GREEN ROOF CONCEPT ANALYSIS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF URBAN FARMING PRACTICE IN CITIES

Answer: The emergence of urban farming mainly for food production is one initiative in
developing a sustainable environment. This paper presents a brief conceptual
review of the ideas, issues and imperatives in implementing urban farming on the
rooftop areas. The concern is to investigate an alternative way for urban dwellers to
achieve resilience through urban farming — the review is based on the theoretical
background and concepts of the relevant constraints taken from various established
references. The method adopts comparatives analysis explicitly through established
texts and secondary data taken from previous cases. The significant examples
include; (i) green roof as rooftop farming in ensuring food security and reduce
carbon footprint in Singapore; (ii) urban farming as a culture in emphasizing the
domestic food production and consumption in Japan; (iii) rooftop urban farming in
fresh urban food production in USA; and (iv) rooftop is effective as edible landscape
and not only serve for visual purpose only in Thailand. These cases will lead to
localize the concept of rooftop urban farming. There also will be a strategy for
the greening of the cities by intensifying urban farming. This paper envisions to
extend and establish the conceptual discourse for implementing urban farming on
the rooftop areas in Malaysia.

(Source: , 28 Sep 2021)

Source Link: http://www.myse.my/mysePaper/7.1.7.pdf