LinkNotes: Vertical farming

Vertical farming

Vertical farming is a conceptual form of agriculture done in urban high-rises. In these high-rises (variously called "farmscrapers,"^[1] food such as fruit, vegetables, fish, and livestock can be raised by using greenhouse growing methods and recycled resources year-round, allowing cities of the future to become self-sufficient.

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The Vertical Farm Project

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Vertical Farm Designs

Chris Jacobs

Andrew Kranis

"The Living Tower" by Pierre Sartoux
info.soa@wanadoo.fr
atelier SoA architectes, 101 rue damrémont, 75018 Paris

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Vertical farming in the big Apple

Downtown Manhattan is hardly a place you would associate with agriculture. Rather, with its countless restaurants, cafes, shops and supermarkets this is a place of consumption.

The idea is simple enough. Imagine a 30-storey building with glass walls, topped off with a huge solar panel.
On each floor there would be giant planting beds, indoor fields in effect.
There would be a sophisticated irrigation system.