Cities face major sustainability challenges but they also have the potential to provide solutions. The scientific community attributes urban agriculture a multi-functional character by virtue of its ability to provide a huge variety of ecosystem services relevant to urban sustainability and resilience. However, this scientific knowledge has not just reached urban planning and urban design planners and translates into the absence of a determined commitment to incorporate agriculture in the city. In this paper, we developed a transdisciplinary applied research for inserting urban agriculture into the design of environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. Supported by the European Union LIFE Program in the city of Lugo, Spain, we establish a framework that integrates scientific knowledge, professional practice and the participation of stakeholders and decision-makers to promote the design of an innovative agricultural space with demonstrative character, easily correctable, adaptable and replicable in other cities. The battery of ecosystem service indicators created to monitor and evaluate the proposal will, in turn, quantify the effective provision of ecosystem services by the design of the urban agricultural space and to help gaining support of decision-makers and citizens for urban agriculture.

城市面临着重大的可持续性挑战，但也有潜力提供解决方案。科学界将城市农业归因于其提供与城市可持续性和复原力相关的各种生态系统服务的能力，将其归为多功能。但是，这种科学知识不仅触及到城市规划和城市设计规划人员，而且还转化为缺乏坚定的决心将农业纳入城市的承诺。在本文中，我们开展了跨学科的应用研究，将都市农业纳入环境可持续发展和具有社会适应力的城市的设计中。在西班牙卢戈市的欧盟LIFE计划的支持下，我们建立了一个整合科学知识，专业实践以及利益相关者和决策者的参与，以促进具有代表性，易于纠正，适应和在其他城市复制的农业创新空间的设计。为监测和评估该提案而创建的一系列生态系统服务指标将反过来通过设计城市农业空间来量化有效提供生态系统服务，并帮助获得决策者和公民对城市农业的支持。