Rooftop farms flourish in space-starved Hong Kong
Reblogged from Mother Nature Network (MNN.com): On the rooftop of a tower block above the hustle and bustle of teeming Hong Kong, dedicated growers tend to their organic crops in a vegetable garden....
View ArticleMetropolitan Agriculture: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Reblogged from The Dirt: S, M, L, or XL-sized metropolitan agriculture? Mia Lehrer, FASLA, Mia Lehrer + Associates, said one size definitely doesn’t fit all when it comes to cities, in a session at the...
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The Top 10 Smartest European Cities
Reblogged from FastCoExist: Which city in Europe is working the hardest to be the most advanced urban landscape? In an attempt to improve the rankings, I developed a metric called the Smart Cities...
View ArticleThe 10 Happiest Cities In The World
The U.S. is a pretty unhappy place compared to Europe, Australia, and South America. That’s according to a survey of 10,000 people in 29 countries from market research company GfK Custom Research....
View ArticleTransforming Milwaukee’s Vacant Lots Into A New Agricultural Economy
When the foreclosure crisis hit Milwaukee, the city was already reeling from the loss of 70,000 manufacturing jobs and a poverty rate that pushed 30 percent. Yet an opportunity emerged when the...
View ArticlePhiladelphia to be US Model for Green Infrastructure
The whole project is fascinating for any number of reasons, but the overarching narrative is the transformation of urban areas from generators of waste and pollution into dynamic systems that return...
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