Talk:Urban field

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Created by --EatAlbertaBeef 17:02, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Formal request has been received to merge the article Urban field into Urban agriculture; dated: July 2017. Proposer's Rationale: topic is a sub-section of latter article. Discuss here. Richard3120 (talk) 21:00, 14 August 2017 (UTC)


 * After reading this article and seeing the urban agriculture article - I have to say that I am rather surprised about this merge proposal. To my view the topics mainly share the word "urban" in the title and I cannot see other overlap that warrants merger. I also do not see why this would be a subsection of urban agriculture as for Urban fields it purely recreational use (ie non agricultural) is part of the definition, while urban agriculture includes "non field" production systems (e.g. mushroom cultivation in the basement of an abandoned swimming pool). Arnoutf (talk) 13:48, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The urban field article is not based on any sources and is an opinion/perspective/idea on what 'urban field' means. Rather in urban planning, city administration practice there is no common definition of urban field. In this context generally, urban field is synonymous with urban agriculture and of which neither are differentiated by ownership, use, or purpose. Take what you see with a grain of salt. There are a lot of pop culture ideas, movements, suggested approaches in urbanity. As an example here http://members.chello.nl/smetaal/ufdf.htm is a very different definition of an urban field. Here is another http://www.fieldurbanism.com/changing-chinese-cities-1/. These aren't 'accepted' definitions, however, and urban planners in practice do not reference urban fields except where they relate to agriculture, or, at times drainage. Randomeditor1000 (talk) 22:58, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * So, we have an article which has contained no references to support it for more than ten years. We can argue about what "urban field" means because nobody really has a clue. It can mean one thing to one person and one thing to another, as has been pointed out above. One thing's for sure, it's got nothing to do with urban agriculture from the scant sources I've managed to find which barely makes the term even notable (Urban field = Urban area). In my view, this article is WP:OR which should have been PRODed long ago. Blank the page and create a WP:REDIRECT to Urbanism. Nick Moyes (talk) 01:48, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree to the above suggestion. Let's redirect to Urbanism.  Ren   Zut  ↂ 15:02, 13 November 2017 (UTC)