This conceptual study analyzes the potential of the Greater Metropolitan Area in Costa Rica to include zones of urban agricultural production for short distance food delivery and concumption.
The research focuses on two different types of urban agriculture: (1) large scale production along the river corridors of the Trama Verde project and in the outskirts of the GAM where the product can be supplied to the consumer via a system of farmer markets and (2) to include small scale components for personal consumption within the urban centers -such as the C.C.M.E.C.- and its architecture.
Credit
Oliver Schütte and Marije van Lidth de Jeude with Ronald Fonseca.
San Jose, Costa Rica, 2009 - 2010.