Urban farming fantasies (survivalism gets hip)

by | Jul 16, 2009


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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