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Thanks to new technology ( as LED and hydroponics), indoor urban agriculture became a \u201clight manufacturing\u201d by fitting in the already present productive and commercial urban fabric and by taking advantage of its location and the proximity to the user.&#13;\n<\/p>\n\n<p>This research illustrates, starting from the first futuristic concepts to the realization of urban farms \u2013 called \u201cZero Acreage Farms\u201d or Z-Farms-, the evolution of the architectures for urban agriculture and how they have interacted with the complexity of the urban reality, economic feasibility, and environmental sustainability. As a result, the thesis defines possible guidelines for productive hybrid architecture, proposing a designing toolbox that has derived from the analysis and evaluations made on different case studies, located between North America and Europe.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract From the early 2000s, the first ideas of urban agricultural production integrated within the architecture took shape as a response to the needs arising from the future urban growth and climate change. 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