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Tag: urban farming

  • Growing Vegetables in High-Rises: It’s Wrong on So Many Levels

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    Five-plus years after the publication of Dickson Despommier's book The Vertical Farm: Feeding Ourselves and The World in the 21st Century, his dream—originally conceived as the production of food in the interior of tall urban buildings—is gaining momentum despite many unanswered questions about its feasibility.   Although the fanciful skyscrapers depicted in countless architectural renderings…