This article envisions urban agriculture as a solution to address global warming by\ndecreasing the urban heat island effect while also addressing many other urban sustainability\nissues, such as multi-functionality, creating new commons, amenities and ecosystem services,\nreinventing urbanity, encouraging community building by growing local food, and enhanced water\nmanagement. This article examines how urban design and planning can promote this solution to\nreconfigure more sustainable and resilient cities. A crucial aspect is that urban planning should evolve\nfrom its traditional prescriptive form to adaptive planning. An important point in adaptive planning\nis that anybody concerned should be associated with the decision-making process, which requires\nthe involvement of citizens in the decisions that affect them.
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