Enhancing urban food production: A framework for optimal site selection and policy development

IF 10.5 1区工程技术 Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Sustainable Cities and Society Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI:10.1016/j.scs.2025.106375

Mohammad Ismaeil Kamali , Rouzbeh Nazari , Maryam Karimi , Mohammad Reza Nikoo

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Abstract

According to the urbanization process, urban food production is a viable means of ensuring urban food security, and socio-economic development. This paper synthesized and reviewed the existing urban agriculture studies to identify the trends and gaps and suggested future research directions for increasing the efficiency of urban agriculture initiatives. We have also critically analyzed food accessibility using standards defined by the USDA. We investigate our query through a critical review of the historical research regarding urban agriculture. Also, this review discusses the integration of MCDM models with GIS in urban agriculture, considering its synergies, applications, and findings. Finally, we defined a framework to determine a suitable area for urban agriculture by considering the influential criteria. Drawing on several cases of spatial data and a variety of strict analytical frameworks, this study looks forward to offering the necessary insights needed for efficient practice in urban agriculture that will excite a paradigm shift toward more inclusive and sustainable urban development.

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加强城市粮食生产：最佳选址和政策制定的框架

从城市化进程看，城市粮食生产是保障城市粮食安全和社会经济发展的可行手段。本文对现有的都市农业研究进行了综合和回顾，以确定其发展趋势和差距，并提出了提高都市农业效率的未来研究方向。我们还使用美国农业部定义的标准对食品可及性进行了批判性分析。我们通过对城市农业历史研究的批判性回顾来调查我们的问题。此外，本文还讨论了MCDM模型与GIS在城市农业中的整合，包括协同效应、应用和研究成果。最后，我们定义了一个框架，通过考虑影响标准来确定适合城市农业的区域。本研究利用空间数据和各种严格的分析框架，期望为城市农业的有效实践提供必要的见解，从而激发向更具包容性和可持续的城市发展的范式转变。

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Sustainable Cities and Society Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

CiteScore

22.00

自引率

13.70%

发文量

810

审稿时长

27 days

期刊介绍： Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including: 1. Smart cities and resilient environments; 2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management; 3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management); 4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities; 5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments; 6. Green infrastructure and BMPs; 7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management; 8. Urban agriculture and forestry; 9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure; 10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy; 11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities; 12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities; 13. Health monitoring and improvement; 14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies; 15. Smart city governance; 16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society; 17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies; 18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems. 19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management; 20. Waste reduction and recycling; 21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling; 22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;