Residential designers are shifting their focus to agrihoods, neighborhoods where buildings are arranged around a central, working farm.
Vincent Mudd, a partner from the architectural firm Steinberg Hart; Lara Hermanson, co-founder of Farmscape; and Lucy Diekmann, an urban agriculture and food systems advisor, are among those who have suggested these projects.
“Developers have a hard time offering open space, because they would like to build more housing,” Mudd said, per Grist. “One of the few ways to kind of bridge that gap is to be able to use active open space that actually generates commerce.”…