Urban aquaculture

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Blue-green infrastructures enhance local resource and food security, serving as essential components of water-sensitive city and landscape development. Grit Bürgow introduces the concept of urban aquaculture, merging traditional cultural techniques with modern knowledge. Her holistic approach connects historical perspectives with future urban and landscape development, addressing ecology, technology, learning, and design. The work emphasizes a transformation in urban infrastructure and lifestyle, focusing on both traditional and contemporary aquaculture practices. These practices contribute to "blue-green" services, including freshwater regeneration, food production, and biodiversity support. Key elements include water-farming—illustrated through swimming gardens, fishponds, and water-farm greenhouses—as well as the idea of "water-wellbeing" in urban settings, featuring bathing ships and river swimming pools. The concept of a "water-living culture" reflects urban life in relation to water, explored through "aquatecture" and "aquapunctures." Case studies provide insights into the daily use of technical infrastructure and landscape changes, while investigating multifunctional design approaches for effective spatial and resource utilization. The book inspires integrated planning and design processes, emphasizing urban aquaculture as a multidisciplinary practice that unites architects, planners, designers, and engineers, showcasin