The NYT finally catches up with 50% of all architecture school theses: "If climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist. This means that the majority of people could soon be without enough food or water. But there is a solution that is surprisingly within reach: Move most farming into cities, and grow crops in tall, specially constructed buildings. It’s called vertical farming."
The NYT finally catches up with 50% of all architecture school theses: "If climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist. This means that the majority of people could soon be without enough food or water. But there is a solution that is surprisingly within reach: Move most farming into cities, and grow crops in tall, specially constructed buildings. It’s called vertical farming."
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vertical farming? isn't this so 2006?
holz,
classic.
not even quite the nytimes - actually an op-ed by dickson despommier, one of the more well-known proponents of this stuff. (i thought the nytimes had actually featured vertical farms before...) anyway, this piece is pretty much identical to despommier's articles on his website from, yes probably 2006.
i find the thought of planted green stuff running up skyscrapers as sexy as anyone, but to me disengaging food production from the soil and relying on technology and "nutrients" seems particularly problematic. and, i always want to ask: who will do the farming?
The bigger problem is that most architecture students think that small moves like vertical farming will actually amount to any change in our cities and our lives.
same old, it's not just students - bigger firms are pushing it as well (like mithun)
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