Yesterday, I visited Brooklyn’s Rooftop Farms, one of the best ideas to come to fruition (literally) in recession-era New York. It’s, er, a farm on a rooftop – with a view:

I was so impressed/delighted by this that I turned to the excellent inhabitat.com, a design and architecture blog with a bit of a thing for urban farms. I liked the recent proposal for a “vertical farm” on a bridge over the Thames…

…and the “Plantagon”, a “geodesic globe farm of the future”:

Solving food scarcity was never so aesthetically pleasing!
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Richard Gowan coordinates the International Security Institutions program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University. He is also the UN Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and an associate of the Foreign Policy Center (London).



