Vol.05 - Understanding and transforming the territory : new approaches and perspectives

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    Towards city resilience, food security and territorial learning : three territorial paradigmatic shifts triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2023) Simon, Sandrine
    According to projections, the urban share of the world population will grow to 66% by 2050, with people moving to cities seeking shelter and jobs. Whilst the current pandemic is questioning the validity of the globalisation upon which our societies rely, cities are growing even more dependent. Although the in-comers are hoping the city will provide them with what they need, they themselves could help to co-create a new urban reality in which people learn from each other to build more urban autonomy. This collaborative process will need to be facilitated through new approaches in urbanism that we suggest tackling here through the issue of city food security. Throughout time, historical ties to the localised food production system have been disrupted: globalised food systems have encouraged unsustainable industrial production processes that, besides generating pollution and reduced biodiversity, have damaged our health, created dependencies, and impacted upon food security. The objective of this chapter is to discuss the rationale for a new research project. Through a focus on Urban Agriculture in Lisbon, the project will analyse the potential for an urbanistic reform that could facilitate the creation of a sustainable food system based on sustainable agriculture, the circularity of activities, the empowerment of participants, equipped with ‘soft skills’, and the collective co-creation of sense-making of the city space. This chapter examines three urban issues concerning our approach to the metropolitan area of Lisbon as a contextual territory for urban agriculture. First, a shift away from a nature vs city dichotomy; then a reflexion on how cities could also become food production spaces, and, finally, a questioning of the global educational systems and a turn towards context-territory-based problems to be solved by local participants through new forms of Territorial Education. Keywords - Food security, circularity, urban agriculture, social urbanism, territorial education; resilient cities