Agriculture and Megacities go together
Welcome to the Urban Agriculture Casablanca - UAC - project homepage!
Urban Agriculture as an Integrative Factor of Climate-Optimised Urban Development, Casablanca / Morocco
Urban Agriculture Casablanca is a German-Moroccan research project of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the megacity research programme "Research for the Sustainable Development of Megacities of Tomorrow, Focus: Energy- and climate-efficient structures in urban growth centres".
Based on the results of the preliminary project phase (07/2005 – 03/2008), Urban Agriculture Casablanca is a research and development project with a main project phase of five years duration (04/2008 – 03/2013).
Urban Agriculture is understood as every form of informal or formal agricultural production within a city, whereby in the context of urban growth centres "city" equates to the urban region.
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Calendar Project Events
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September 16, 2010
Architectural-Engineering Competion
- All teams and TU Berlin members arrive in Casablanca Dinner with all team members [more]
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September 16, 2010 - September 17, 2010
Creative Workshop: Settlement
- Creative Workshop with focus on settlement Introduction to the... [more]
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September 17, 2010
Architectural-Engineering Competion
- Get to know the city: walks and talks with "Casa Mémoire" 18h00 Welcome speech... [more]
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September 18, 2010
Architectural-Engineering Competion
- 08h00 INAU bus driving to the site 10h00 official welcome [more]
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September 19, 2010
Architectural-Engineering Competion
- All teams brainstorming, walking the site and sketching ideas [more]
Jobs
We are searching a student assistant!
Who: student of computer sciences
When: from now! 40h/month
Where: TU Berlin
