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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: High-Rise Farms: The Future of Food?


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The Pyramid Farm may be one way to address the needs of a swelling population on a planet with finite farmland, according to designers Dickson Despommier at New York's Columbia University and Eric Ellingsen of the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Design teams around the world have been rolling out concepts for futuristic skyscrapers that house farms instead of—or in addition to—people as a means of feeding city dwellers with locally-grown crops.

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Illustration courtesy Eric Ellingsen and Dickson Despommier, Vertical Farm Project