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§ion=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/
Archive of City Agriculture available at http://cityag.blogspot.com
I love this stuff. Dream world.
Thanks, so do I.
Been involved with local ag since the 1970s and was extremely lucky to work with Mel King on the issue back then. We’ve known what to do and how to do it for decades but we, in the general sense, don’t have the imagination or the will to do it.
My friends at New Alchemy Institute had the data to prove the possibility of providing all the fruit and vegetables for a family and more on a suburban lawn by the end of the 1970s. Now some reputable soil scientists say we could reduce CO2 in the atmosphere to preindustrial levels (280ppm) within a few decades if we did globally and consistently what we know how to do with a wide variety of soil carbon sequestration techniques that work at every scale from a single flower pot to thousands of hectares.
See https://bluemassgroup.com/2021/03/geotherapy-not-geoengineering-please/ for more.
Don’t know if you saw this …
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/forest-on-caffeine-how-coffee-helps-forests-grow-faster
Is there anything coffee can’t do?