Consumers’ and Stakeholders’ Acceptance of Indoor Agritecture in Shanghai (China)

During recent decades, there has been increasing awareness of the development “agritecture” (“agri”culture + archi“tecture”) as a means to transform and revolutionize food supply future cities. The different forms agritecture include building-integrated agricultural concepts such vertical farms or indoor farms. In this way, urban production could take place in proximity consumers while employing so-called “urban waste” products (such wastewater, waste heat, organic waste) valuable inputs. Although scholars frequently highlight potential farming other approaches for Asian megacities, is still lack academic research completed projects related field China. This study uses mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative qualitative location Shanghai, reveal social acceptance among experts. First, explore perceptions consumers, survey 713 was conducted Shanghai. Second, these surveys were complemented by 20 expert interviews with academics practitioners from Shanghai frame results. Our results revealed that surveyed consumers’ expectations experts are high. Additionally, already high level demand market confirmed ongoing construction first moderate-scale farm several farms, combination existence edible landscape rooftop can be viewed rise raise more doubts about economic dimension, whereas its ecological dimensions contextual framework considered positive.