Adaptive Reuse for Urban Food Provision

Monika Szopinska-Mularz is an architect, postgraduate researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture at Rzeszow University of Technology (Poland). She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and Urbanism awarded by the University of Portsmouth (UK). After graduating from Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland) in 2010 with a Master of Architecture and Urbanism degree, she practised architecture in KuP Architekten in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and ST Architekci in Rzeszow, Poland. Monika is a registered member of the Polish Chamber of Architects. In 2009, she was awarded special selection praise in the JAD International Design Competition in South Korea for creating a Soft Space as a conceptual reaction to the recent worldwide economic crisis. Her current research focus is on adaptive reuse of buildings, urban agriculture and resilient urban design. In the architectural practice, she mainly works on modernising existing building stock, adaptive reuse and landscape design.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Methodology.- Chapter 3. Literature review.- Chapter 4. Investigation into the planning, architectural and environmental opportunities and limitations for the adaptive reuse of urban structures for controlled environment agriculture.- Chapter 5. Interviews with practitioners.- Chapter 6. Guide for the analysis of the adaptive reuse potential of inner-city modern movement car parking structures for controlled environment agriculture.- Chapter 7. Application of the guide to the case studies. Investigating the viable adaptive reuse scenario of the three modern movement car parking structures for CEA.- Chapter 8. Discussion.- Chapter 9. Conclusions and future research.