City Agriculture: 2016

Paris passes new law allowing anyone to plant an urban garden within the city’s limits: on walls, in boxes, on rooftops, under trees, or on fences. "Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo’s goal is to create 100 hectares of living walls and green roofs by the year 2020, with one third of that greenery dedicated to agriculture.”

http://inhabitat.com/paris-allows-anyone-to-plant-an-urban-garden-anywhere/

Taiga Tower a “smart” indoor garden with a multilevel form factor

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/taiga-tower-the-smart-home-garden#/

Jellyfish greenhouses purify air and water while growing food

http://www.theearthchild.co.za/floating-jellyfish-greenhouses-purify-polluted-water-air-growing-food/

We Over Me Farm - Dallas TX Paul Quinn College converted its football field to a farm to provide work, funds, and foods to its students and to donates 10% of the harvest to its community which is a recognized food desert

http://www.pqc.edu/we-over-me-farm/

Chlorella oxygen pod

http://www.adammiklosi.hu/project/150/

Target beginning in-store vertical farms

http://www.forbes.com/sites/retailwire/2016/10/19/will-targets-in-store-farms-be-sustainable/#638a13786311

Sunday, September 25, 2016

City Agriculture - September 25, 2016

NYC Farm condo for the High Line?

http://westonbaker.com/#projects/hybrid-farm-apartment

https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/market-insight/features/the-new-skyline/could-this-farm-condo-gallery-hybrid-be-coming-rem-koolhaas-high-line-parcel/5122

NYC World’s Fair NY State Pavilion reimagined as greenhouse bubble

http://therealdeal.com/2016/08/05/winning-design-reimagines-worlds-fair-site-in-flushing-as-giant-greenhouse-bubble/

LEED for vertical farms

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/leed-vertical-farms-defining-high-tech-sustainable-food

Tulsa, OK's urban farming to reduce food deserts

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/25/tulsa-oklahoma-community-garden-urban-farming-oasis-food-desert

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Planning for Parks and Urban Forests in Los Angeles County

http://losangeles.urbdezine.com/2016/08/23/trees-planning-parks-urban-forests-los-angeles-county/

hat tip Gil Friend

Editorial Comment: My observation from years of listening to major journalists talk at Harvard’s Shorenstein is that sometimes there are also people who can’t see the forest for the leaves.

Mobile green living room touring Europe

http://www.turas-cities.org/blog/52

http://inhabitat.com/plant-covered-mobile-green-living-room-travels-through-europe/

3 “forests” for London Design Festival

http://inhabitat.com/asif-khan-and-mini-unveil-3-plant-filled-microshelters-for-urbanites/

Fruit walls and urban farming in the 1600s

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html#more

Proposal for Brussels Botanic Center renovation as plant-covered and smog fighting building

http://vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-botaniccenter.html

Spherical Growroom to demonstrate urban farming in Copenhagen

https://www.space10.io/journal/growing-sphere-exploring-how-cities-can-feed-themselves-through-advanced-urban-farming

Agro Food Park for the “Silicon Valley of Agriculture“ in Aarhus, Denmark

http://www.mcdonoughpartners.com/projects/agro-food-park/

The Hanging Gardens now being built in Copenhagen will allow residents to grow, buy, and sell their own vegetables without leaving the building

http://inhabitat.com/hanging-gardens-tower-will-allow-residents-to-grow-and-sell-their-own-vegetables-on-site/

http://www.tegnestuenlokal.dk/Himmelhaverne-Gronttorvet-1

Editorial Comment: Do these three links mean an eyewitness report from Denmark is necessary?

Williamsburg Brooklyn’s 15,000-square-foot public rooftop park atop the new William Vale Hotel.

http://inhabitat.com/nyc/enjoy-sweeping-city-views-from-this-new-public-rooftop-garden-atop-the-william-vale-hotel/

http://www.gunnlandscapes.com/in-progress/level-hotel-2/

Local food can go too far

https://the-macroscope.org/local-food-is-great-but-can-it-go-too-far-ba686abe2ab7#.qks5sk1v5

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

City Agriculture - August 9, 2016

Handy-pods: wetland plants to filter human waste in floating villages

https://wetlandswork.com/products-and-services/sanitation-in-challenging-environments/handy-pods/

http://inhabitat.com/floating-toilets-filter-human-waste-in-cambodia-naturally-via-wetland-plants/

SF Golden Bridge School redesigned for urban farming for grades K-8

http://www.goldenbridgesschool.org/campus-design-and-highlights.html

http://inhabitat.com/nations-first-urban-farm-school-teaches-kids-how-to-grow-their-own-food/

Seattle’s Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands - 20,000 pounds of fresh food, 5000 meals, and training for 3,600 Rainier Valley residents per year.

http://www.seattletilth.org/about/rainier-beach-urban-farm-wetlands

Top 10 USA cities for urban farming (Boston is #2)

http://inhabitat.com/top-10-cities-in-the-us-for-urban-farming/

NYC’s tallest green wall

http://inhabitat.com/this-55-foot-tall-residential-green-wall-will-be-the-largest-of-its-kind-in-new-york/

A green freeway proposal for LA

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-maltzan-freeway-20160629-snap-htmlstory.html

Guangzhou’s Parc Central

http://inhabitat.com/eco-conscious-parc-central-adds-beautiful-green-lungs-to-guangzhou/

http://www.rlphk.com/eng/projects/architecture/commercial/31/4/40/parc-central-guangzhou-china.html

http://www.benoy.com/news/2016/07/parc-central-opens/

Jet Blue’s potato farm at JFK Airport

24 minute video tour: https://youtu.be/kYtfKG4rXw4

https://www.jetblue.com/green/building/

http://otp.investis.com/clients/us/jetblue_airways/usn/usnews-story.aspx?cid=981&newsid=30788

Infinite Green sculpture in Wroclaw, Poland

http://www.adamkalinowski.com/infinitegreen.html

http://www.adamkalinowski.com

NYC’s Swale floating food forest now in operation

http://www.swaleny.org

Turin, Italy mayor proposes a vegetarian city

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/21/turin-mayor-italys-first-vegetarian-city-five-star

Telus Gardens in Vancouver, LEED Platinum with indoor gardens
http://inhabitat.com/vancouvers-greenest-office-building-envisions-a-new-kind-of-office-space-with-telus-garden/
http://henriquezpartners.com/archimemo/telus-garden-grand-opening/
http://www.officemb.ca/work/telus-garden/

LIAR Living Architecture
"This project will develop blocks able to extract resources from sunlight, waste water and air. The bricks are able to fit together and create ‘bioreactor walls’ which could then be incorporated in housing, public buildings and office spaces.”
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2016/07/liarlivingarchitecture/

Sunday, May 22, 2016

City Agriculture - May 23, 2016

Skyfarm - modular vertical grow structure

http://www.rsh-p.com/projects/skyfarm/

http://inhabitat.com/wind-powered-vertical-skyfarms-look-to-a-more-sustainable-future-for-farming/

AccorHotels, which includes Sofitel, Novotel and Motel 6, plans 1000 hotel vegetable gardens by 2020

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/apr/13/accorhotels-to-grow-its-own-vegetables-in-push-to-cut-food-waste

Renderings versus reality for tree-covered skyscrapers

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/renderings-vs-reality-rise-tree-covered-skyscrapers/

Tokyo green tower Toranomon project

http://www.archdaily.com/785775/ingenhoven-architects-reveal-plans-for-green-tower-in-tokyo

http://www.ingenhovenarchitects.com/projects/more-projects/toranomon-project-en/

Floating food forest for NYC

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1152620801/swale

Urban cricket farm

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3059181/this-modular-cricket-pod-lets-you-create-an-urban-insect-farm

Farm from a Box - shipping container kit for 2 acre farm

http://www.farmfromabox.com

https://youtu.be/VlcijvWRJGU

Freight Farms does an enclosed system shipping container food production system

http://freightfarms.com

Prairie Urban Farms "Farm on Wheels" shipping container both farm and class room

http://www.edmontonexaminer.com/2016/03/16/local-group-hopes-to-create-agricultural-and-educational-centre-in-a-shipping-container

Planton Movil - a walking forest that peacefully claims its place and respect in the city by linking art and social change. Since 2010 in Lima, Peru, people from different disciplines and backgrounds have come together to help create and maintain sustainable public green areas

http://www.plantonmovil.com

https://www.facebook.com/Plantonmovil

http://portfolios.risd.edu/gallery/16258083/Planton-Movil

Current Extent and Future Capacity of Urban Gardening

http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2016/03/11/current-extent-and-future-capacity-of-urban-gardening/

Parisian vertical farm

http://www.designboom.com/architecture/ilimelgo-architects-vertical-farm-grand-paris-03-22-2016/

Urban tree farms for six cities

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/state_news/vacant-lots-in-cities-to-become-tree-farms-agriculture-plots/article_af911178-3abb-54f0-8e68-ecd9634f7cdd.html

Sunday, April 10, 2016

City Agriculture - April 10, 2016

Stockholm’s new City Districts Environmental and Planning Offices will be a greenhouse
http://inhabitat.com/could-stockholms-new-greenhouse-building-end-boring-municipal-design/
http://media.wix.com/ugd/7d0599_10f53d9ef61a46ad842cbad7c40fd708.pdf - full proposal (in Swedish but the pictures tell a story)

Plug-in ecology urban farm pod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3p4CJS-6E
http://inhabitat.com/urban-farm-pods-brilliant-plug-in-ecology-could-revolutionize-urban-farming/

Nursery Fields Forever - farming for preschoolers
http://www.awrcompetitions.com/competition/31/london-nursery-school
http://inhabitat.com/farming-preschool-would-teach-kids-how-to-grow-their-own-food/

Hong Kong food growing arcology towers
http://www.dezeen.com/2016/03/07/weston-williamson-arcology-skyscraper-kissing-towers-hong-kong-victoria-harbour/
http://inhabitat.com/self-sustaining-arcology-tower-would-bring-urban-agriculture-to-the-heart-of-hong-kong/

OxyGen green roofed garden building for Paris business district
http://www.stephanemalka.com/en/2016/02/ogyxen/

Floating Fields - a factory recycled into a multi-ecology growing system
http://www.archdaily.com/783314/floating-fields-wins-shenzhen-uabb-award-and-is-set-to-continue-through-2016

Infarm - modular vertical grow spaces for supermarkets and homes
https://infarm.de

Farm Follows Function - a comic book on transforming NYC’s MetLife Building into a vertical farm
http://inhabitat.com/nyc/nycs-iconic-metlife-building-becomes-a-vertical-farm-in-quirky-architecture-comic/

Ikea indoor garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv9wD2HNSnA

Ecoqube desktop aquaponics device
http://getecoqube.com

Energaia - growing spirulina algae on a Bangkok rooftop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03FodbygCwU

Thursday, February 4, 2016

City Agriculture - February 4, 2016

Cooling towers into green communities

http://inhabitat.com/cypher-co2ling-plant-converts-cooling-towers-into-vibrant-green-communities/

http://www.archdaily.com/780109/this-conceptual-design-reinvents-power-plants-as-mixed-use-megastructures

Aker - snap together kits for urban ag

http://www.aker.me

One of the POC [Proof of Concept] ideas from COP 21

http://www.poc21.cc/12-projects/

Agritecture: "Your source for vertical farming and urban agriculture news, business, and design."

http://agritecture.com

Local Roots Farms - local produce anywhere

http://www.localrootsfarms.com

Bell Book and Candle - NYC farm to table restaurant, rated as one of the best in the country. "SOME ITEMS WE PRODUCE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR FROM OUR AEROPONIC ROOFTOP GARDEN LISTED BELOW: Sage, Chive, Chervil, Cilantro, Dill, Genovese Basil, Opal Basil, Italian and Flat Leaf Parsley, Spearmint, Rosemary, 4 varieties of Nasturtium, Cheddar Cauliflower, Purple Tomatillo, Tomatillo, Japanese and Kermit Eggplant, 2 varieties of Arugula, 4 varieties of Cherry Tomato, Great White Tomato, Bibb Lettuce, Red Oak Leaf, Red Romaine, Green Romaine, Lola Rosa, Frisee, Green Crisp, Poblano Pepper, and Fennel."

http://bbandcnyc.com

SPREAD, a Japanese company, will open the world’s first robot-controlled farm in Fall 2017, producing 11 million heads of lettuce each year

http://spread.co.jp/en/

Pilgrim’s Market to grow its own produce in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho

http://www.spokanejournal.com/local-news/-pilgrims-market-to-grow-its-own-produce/#sthash.WKFT1S9a.dpuf

Risk of lead poisoning from urban gardening is low, new study finds

http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/02/02/risk-of-lead-poisoning-from-urban-gardening-is-low-new-study-finds/

https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/jeq/abstracts/45/1/26?access=0&view=pdf

Bright Agrotech - Zip Farms, Farm Walls, and more

https://brightagrotech.com

Urban Agriculture? Only 1 Percent Of Seattle Residents Could Eat Locally Even With All Viable Space In Use

http://www.science20.com/news_articles/urban_agriculture_only_1_percent_of_seattle_residents_could_eat_locally_even_with_all_viable_space_in_use-163422