After decades of thinking of the city as gridded and mineral-based, dedicated to the car and the service sector, to efficiency and to «progress», today urban societies find themselves at the center of an interesting shift: one transforming the values of economy into the values of ecology.
These city gardens can function for agricultural production and subsequent transformation into foodstuffs: restaurants, school canteens, bottling, filling or cannery sites...They encourage the promotion of a collective consciousness around notions of cooking and table arts, environmental respect, and the solidarity of nourishment.