Studies on Informational Intervention Strategies of the Urban Community Agriculture

In the information age, the creation of a suitable self-sustaining form should be taken into account for urban community agriculture. As a kind of self-sufficient urban ecosystem, agriculture can re-integrate the collective will and physical environment of urban communities. Under the premise of policy guidance and technical progress, in order to insure the bottom-up involvement in agricultural production and social changes by urban communities, information technologies represented by Internet platform and mobile terminals hold out the possibility for them. In the meanwhile, the enhance of individual force causes the induction of complicated and constantly extended social participation. We provide the method of applying information technology which creates a bran-new model of neighborhood, more permeable community boundaries, and differentiated community character. The results show that apart from the agricultural resources (seasonal ecological food, energy, rainwater recycling) supplied by the well-run urban community agriculture to residents, it also makes available the recreational space and environmental education platform, and provides assistance in establishing the cultural foundation for a new urban community landscape.