Living Architecture Monitor features urban agriculture

This issue profiles innovative urban agriculture policies and projects

Fall 2010
Vol. 12. No. 4

CitiesAlive will be in Vancouver from November 30th to December 3rd – the 8th Annual Green Roof and Wall Conference. See website here. A new course on Rooftop Urban Agriculture will be launched at CitiesAlive.

In this issue:

Urban Agriculture – Designing the edible building envelope

Seattle City Council, sponsor of the City’s new urban agriculture policy.

Farming for the City. From barren, unproductive rooftop to fertile agricultural oasis teeming with people, chickens and bees, Brooklyn’s Eagle Street Rooftop Farm is a catalyst for community and food security.

Diary of an Urban Apiarist. When bees go to collect nectar, they don’t use shopping carts. These and other lessons learned from the front-lines of rooftop pollinator pampering in New York City.

Increasing urban food security with extensive green roofs. Groundbreaking research shows the potential to grow food on roofs using a nutrient tea derived from household organic waste.

Economic valuation of a rooftop food garden. City rooftops offer vast potential to support gardens for food. A new formula makes it easier for designers, property owners and developers to quantify the economic value of rooftop gardens.

Macro-scale food production. Graduate students power a visionary look at the potential of rooftop agriculture in Toronto.

Urban agriculture – hero or hype? Despite the odds, entrepreneurs are pushing the commercial urban agriculture movement forward one head of lettuce at a time.

See the issue here.