Using fruit growing species in periurban landscape design

Abstract

Present study sets out anew way of developing the green spaces, centered on the citizen, wishing to become a way for cities to cope with climate change, food and nutritional security, biodiversity management and prosperity.Our purpose was to find and implement a tool for the sustainable recovery of degraded lands, by using landscaping that includes periurban spaces dedicated to the development of agro-horticultural sector.The study was conducted between 2016-2019 and represents a multidisciplinary approach, which took into consideration as many aspects as environment, economic, social, horticultural and biological.Horticultural part of this study is characterized by a great biodiversity and is dominated by fruit growing species. As for the degraded area in which urban orchards are located, they could be the hope of having safe spaces, of improving the landscape, as well as another form of social inclusion. The most important benefits from a social point of view are the maintenance of public spaces at a low cost, the social inclusion, the economy of saving food and the short chain, while under the environmental aspect, the protection of biodiversity and the safety of health become important.