Tour & Taxis has changed dramatically in recent years. The industrial railway site is now a trendy office and residential area. ParckFarm wanted to give something back to the working-class neighbourhoods that surround it.
With Parckfarm, a new typology of public space is taking shape in the former abandoned railway valley behind Tour & Taxis - now a fully-fledged city park. It combines the characteristics of a 'lived' or convivial city park with local micro-urban farming. Together with local residents, artists, farmers and designers, the initiators of Parckfarm want to reclaim the green public space for residents as an urban commons. The initiators of Parckfarm vzw aim to exert a sustainable impact on the strategic development of the site.
