Background: Achieving food security, environmental resilience, and public health has become a fundamental challenge in urban planning, and the integrated productive urban landscape is an approach that links urban form, urban agriculture, and ecological infrastructure. Previous studies have remained largely theoretical or limited to metropolises and historic fabrics, and the functional link between these concepts in mid-sized cities with lower orchard and farmland capacity has received little attention.

Objective: This study aims to identify and explain the key components for realizing an integrated productive urban landscape through an urban agriculture approach in mid-sized cities, focusing on Tonekabon.

Methods: The study is applied in purpose and qualitative in nature, with spatial analysis (GIS) in a supporting role. Data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews with ten experts and analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis. GIS was then used to locate orchard and farmland capacities and assess physical continuity.

Findings: Unlike the classic European CPUL model, which starts from vacant urban land, the strategic principle in mid-sized cities is to preserve and connect existing living agricultural capacity across four dimensions: physical-spatial, socio-cultural, environmental-health, and economic-governance. Based on expert consensus, the neighborhood scale was identified as the focal point of implementation. Surplus water management and flood control are the environmental priority, and the economic viability of retaining land use for smallholders is a condition for its sustainability. These dimensions operate as a reinforcing cycle.

Limitations: Deficiencies in descriptive data, a lack of precise land ownership statistics, and outdated base maps and shapefiles in the study area.

Conclusion: A conceptual model of a productive green-blue network, comprising production cores, a connecting axis, a linking loop, and social and economic nodes, is proposed for Tonekabon. It is a preliminary step toward filling the theoretical and practical gap for mid-sized cities with similar conditions.