Urban farming and big scale high productivity agriculture are not necessarily incompatible. Although the grassroot organizations, mentioned in the post below, would probably never suggest something of the sort, vertical farms also present a solution to our future problems regarding food production. On various levels, on top of and in between housing and offices, livestock [...]
Urban farming is more and more part of daily life of city dwellers in the US and (especially Eastern) Europe. Growing vegetables and lifestock in high density urban areas might seem as something strange, but according to various articles the practice of urban farming and the presence of “rural” animals in cities has always existed. [...]
Shrinking cities are mostly found on the northern hemisphere, in developed countries such as the US, Russia, Japan and Europe. Dropping fertility rates and increased emigration (usually from small and middle sized towns to fast growing megalopolises) are leaving demographical and physical gaps in many cities at the moment. This phenomenon is not as well [...]
