1. U R B A N A G R I C U L T U R E & T E R R O I R
SMORGUSBURG - RAMEN BURGER

2. I N T R O D U C T I O N
Terroir can exist wherever a local product is produced. A region, and city,
a community, a place
The community’s culture of an authentic knowledge of practice for the pro-
duction of local products.
Could urban agriculture projects in NYC gain
resilience by overlaying the term terroir?
This paper aims to inform designers, planners, and
architects the benefiets an urban agriculture project could gain by using
context of community culture and terroir.

3. P U R P O S E & O B J E C T I V E S
How does one define “terroir”?
What exsisting urban agricultural projects in NYC incorporate “terroir”?
How does combining urban agriculture with terroir inform new typologies
and strategies for our urban landscape?
Have designers incorporated the notion of “terroir” as a precedent study
for informing their strategies when
designing NYC’s urban agricultural projects?

4. M E T H O D S
Literature was collected between March 16 - May 6
This study reviewed over 32 documents including -
-journals and articles
-project websites
-books

5. D A T A B A S E S & R E S E A R C H C R I T E R I A
New School Libraries > BobCat > Databases A-Z > W > Web of Science - Cross Search
(ISI Ver.3.0)
New School Libraries > BobCat > Articles and Databases > Food Studies
-Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
-America: History & Life (EBSCOhost)America: History & Life (EBSCOhost)
-ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and AbstractsASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
-IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest)IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest)
-JSTOR
-Project MuseProject Muse
-ProQuest Central (ProQuest)
-ProQuest Social Science Journals (ProQuest)
-Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCOhost)
Google Scholar
nclude projects specific to New York City within the past 10 years

6. K E Y W O R D S & B O O L E A N O P E R A T O R S
Urban Agriculture, Terroir, Identity, Urban Garden, New York City
terroir AND (definition OR meaning)
(“urban agriculture” OR “community garden*” OR “urban farm” OR “urban
garden*”) AND (culture OR identity OR “local knowledge” OR heritage OR
tradition OR culture OR taste)
(“urban agriculture” OR “community garden*” OR “urban farm” OR “urban
garden*”) AND “New York City”

7. R E S U L T S - Transnational Subcategories of Terroir
T A S T E O F P L A C E
T A S T E E X P E R I E N C E S
P R O D U C T I O N O F L O C A L I T Y
Q U A L I T Y O F F L A V O R
C U L T U R E O F T A S T E
The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir - Amy Trubek
T e r r o i r

8. T A S T E O F P L A C E
This section will introduce the projects currently promoting
cultural awareness and preservation through urban
agriculture
Edible Estates Garden # 8 -Fritz Haeg

9. T A S T E E X P E R I E N C E S
Public spaces with programs highlighting local food culture and produce
Smorgusburg - Williamsburg

10. P R O D U C T I O N O F L O C A L I T Y
Rooftop Reds is producing the first wines in
Brooklyn on top of the Brooklyn Navy Yards.

11. Q U A L I T Y O F F L A V O R
This section highlights the urban agriculture projects that integrate tech-
nologies to produce high quality food
products with greater depths of flavor.
E D E N W O R K S

12. C U L T U R E O F T A S T E
Munchies is VICE Media’s cooking channel that supplies its episodes
with fresh local ingredients grown right on their roof designed and operat-
ed by Brooklyn Grange.

13. C U L T U R E + P L A C E
This could propose that each space that currently exists, given it has
culture and a place, has a terroir or a package of knowledge and
practices specific to the producers of that area.
Techoueres, 2005

14. D I S C U S S I O N
-Strategize using terroir’s labeling within Urban Agriculture
-What is still missing when urban agriculture projects in
large cities develop, is the application of the communities
specific and unique culture
-By understanding the community’s network, projects are
encourgaed to evolve from subsitnence markets into
global artisan communities that produce rich
community-specific products
(Elaydi & Mclaughlin, 2012).

15. C O N C L U S I O N
The urban agriculture projects existing in New York City already
operate under the benefits of local cultures and places of authentic
and unique tastes. The knowledge and usage of the word terroir
however is not being applied to many project’s range of goals which
could empower these operations.
The scale of the places, territories, and regions that terroir can apply to
effectively still needs to be researched. But introducing the term into a
strategy for adding community involvement and representation of unique
cultures is currently being seen