Thursday, April 8, 2021

City Agriculture - April 2021

 BBC summary of the state of the art/business

https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/how-to-grow-food-in-a-concrete-jungle/

BBC TV Series:   Follow the Food:  Urban Farming
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000t6nc

“Carbon-absorbing” vertical forest skyscraper nears completion in Taipei
https://vincent.callebaut.org/object/210128_taozhuyinyuan/taozhuyinyuan/projects
https://inhabitat.com/carbon-absorbing-vertical-forest-skyscraper-nears-completion-in-taipei/

Carbon neutral ecodistrict for Lille, France - another Callebaut project
https://vincent.callebaut.org/object/210126_archiborescence/archiborescence/projects
https://inhabitat.com/vincent-callebaut-envisions-a-carbon-neutral-district-for-france/

Plant Ag:  $9 billion startup with food traceability from field to plate
https://www.fastcompany.com/90614017/plant-ag-9-billion-startup-food-traceability-field-to-plate-transparency-karim-giscombe

Liuzhou Forest City - China is building a city where trees clean the air
https://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/project/liuzhou-forest-city/

Saltwater vertical farming
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2021/3/1/what-do-saltwater-vertical-farming-and-sustainable-coastlines-have-in-common

Regeneration of Pirelli 39 - renovating and expanding an existing building to include a vertical forest for cleaning the air
https://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/project/the-regeneration-of-pirelli-39/
https://dsrny.com/project/pirelli-39?index=false&section=projects&search=Pirelli
https://inhabitat.com/leed-targeted-pirelli-39-features-a-carbon-absorbing-vertical-forest-in-milan/

Japanese competition for best garden in the back of a pick-up truck
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=236856398229072&set=pcb.236857111562334
Other mobile gardens in City Agriculture over the years include
Kim Holleman’s mobile park in one trailer or as a trailer park, now in new smaller model with aquaponics
http://www.kimholleman.com/trailer-park-project
http://inhabitat.com/nyc/kim-holleman-debuts-new-version-of-famous-trailer-park-with-solar-powered-aquaponic-pond/
Autonomous traveling garden:  Hortum machina B
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/ialab-exhibiting-at-ars-electronica.html
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/
Mobile garden in MIlan
http://www.a4a.it/installazioni-eventi/why-not-in-the-garden

Rob Greenfield foraged all his own food for a year in Orlando, FL
https://youtu.be/c462qJdcl74

Continuing Education: Urban Agriculture
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15046-continuing-education-urban-agriculture

Lichen and moss walls
https://www.benettihome.it/en/homepage
https://inhabitat.com/customizable-natural-lichen-green-walls-require-no-maintenance/

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