Fayetteville 2030: Food City Scenario Site: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Fifty percent of Fayetteville’s built environment projected to exist by 2030 has not yet been built. Fayetteville will essentially reproduce another
Fayetteville―approximately 100 million square feet including 28,000 housing units―within its boundaries over the next 20 years. The University of Arkansas Community Design Center (UACDC) proposes to model a 2030 Food City Scenario that envisions a future based on food security, linking local food production to urban development. The intention is to enable a more robust planning capacity for shaping Fayetteville’s future through the visualization of long-term development possibilities otherwise unconsidered.
What if 100% of Fayetteville’s new growth had to sustain its equivalent food budget through a local urban agriculture network, or at least create food security? How might a local “foodshed” become an ecological utility distributed throughout all urban land uses, featuring green infrastructure and neighborhoods, public growscapes, and architectural typologies related to animal husbandry, food processing, distribution, and marketing?
“The best way to predict your future is to create it!” -Abraham Lincoln
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