Learning with GreenUP. An Urban Design Strategy for Vertical Edible Green, in Enrica Di Toppa, Caterina Pietra, Dan Zhu (eds.), Discontinuity in Contemporary Cities. The ILAUD Experience: Shanghai’s Urban Voids as an Opportunity for Regeneration

This volume collects ideas conceived during the 2019 ILAUD Workshop entitled “Discontinuity in Contemporary City” held in Shanghai. The significant amount of knowledge produced during three days of intensive work has been subjected to an equal consistent review due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the lockdown period has stimulated new interesting insights regarding discontinuity as an intrinsic feature of contemporary urbanization. Indeed, Part I of the contribution reports five essays by Experts who have been invited to reflect and propose further argumentations on this issue. In particular, the workshop was focused on analyzing an area of abandoned workers’ houses located in the Putuo District. Part II of the book reports the results of eight design proposals, exploring different architectural, urban, functional, social, and cultural solutions. These suggestions are the outcome of discussions between students and professors that have led to investigate the elements generating social and functional inequalities, trying to shape solutions to positively influence the site and its surroundings within the urban context of Shanghai.