Sunday 11 April 2010

Futuristic City Farms


You can’t get more organic than by growing the food yourself but unfortunately, most people who live in the city don’t have that luxury. Instead, you are forced to pay a premium for quality food. There is, however, a concept called Agricultural Urbanism that may change all that in the future.



Basically, the idea of Agricultural Urbanism is community-based farming on a grand scale. Each urban district will have one of these mega-structures which allows citizens to grow their own crops as well as sell off the surplus to help with their incomes. The building itself will have many terraces dedicated to a variety of vegetables and be built to allow the maximum amount of sunlight to reach the plants.



1 comment:

  1. I recently saw a programme on the demise (in wealth and industry) of Detroit and it currently has the largest amount of inner city argricultural space within the developed nations. We should embrace the idea of urban farms and moving most types of production to a local/community level. I think the knock of effects it would have with over consumption and wastage would be drastic

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