New Publication Alert: “Bioagricorridors” 🌿🏙️🐾

I’m happy to share a new book chapter: “Bioagricorridors. Urban ecosystem networks to enhance biological diversity, ecosystem services and food production in Barcelona, Spain.” 

It’s part of the open-access book Designing Resilience: Strategies for the sustainable development and understanding of urban complexity (edited by Francesca Mosca and Gabriele Oneto, October 2025).

What’s the Story?

Cities often treat “nature” as patches: a park here, a planted street there. This chapter explores another approach: continuous living corridors that connect urban ecosystems and support biodiversity, soil health, water cycles, and local food production.

The concept of bioagricorridors brings agroecology into the urban fabric, using the idea of continuity to link fragmented landscapes through green infrastructure. It also uses mapping not just to illustrate solutions, but to help imagine them, test them, and communicate them.

Why It Matters

Bioagricorridors are proposed as a way to respond to big, overlapping pressures: biodiversity loss, climate stress, sealed surfaces, and the growing distance between cities and their food systems. The chapter asks how urban space could be redesigned to support more-than-human life while also improving everyday conditions for people.

It’s not framed as a perfect answer. It’s a spatial exploration that also acknowledges challenges, from infrastructure needs to social concerns and potential conflicts.

Read the Chapter

The book is open access, so you can read it freely at page 178. If you’re curious about urban agroecology, multispecies design, and mapping as a tool for imagining change, this chapter is for you.

by Filippo Vegezzi and Dr. Fabio Capra Ribeiro

Author: Filippo Vegezzi and Dr. Fabio Capra Ribeiro

Join the Conversation 💬🌿

What would it mean to treat streets as habitats, not just routes?

What kinds of urban “corridors” do we need, and who are they for?

If you read it, I’d love to hear what stays with you.