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Research is ongoing to develop techniques for assimilating agriculture into an urbanism acceptable to the expectations of modern life and meeting the choice of lifestyles of Transect-based plans. The ability to grow food has implications for communities on multiple levels: from food security and health issues, to ensuring a local economy, to the vast environmental benefi ts of local farming, and the social benefi ts of a productive activity in which all members of a community can engage. [...] 