**2. Food-producing communities as dynamic urban laboratories for sustainable living**

Modern agroecology proposes a new multidisciplinary, intersectoral, and multiscalar approach to redefining the relationship between production, cities, and land, both by providing a more current vision of agriculture, which influences the development of new management, monitoring, and planning tools, and by offering a different perspective to restructure the relationship between agriculture and society [27]. In contrast to the assumptions of a standard agricultural management and the concept of a one-size-fits-all agricultural model, experimental agri-urban models developed in recent decades emphasize the importance of the management of all resources involved in agricultural production processes and emphasize the need to promote diffuse management and production systems. Such models ascribe to food production not only the ability to sustainably cope with the growing food demand from a short supply chain perspective—thus reducing critical factors associated with long-distance transportation such as GHG emissions and food waste—but also the ability to improve living conditions by increasing the degree of multifunctionality, supply of public goods, ecosystem quality, and even microclimate conditions. Indeed, bringing nature into cities through urban farming not only provides high-quality
