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