Re: Agricultural Skyscrapers

Jeff Fabijanic (jeff@primordialsoft.com)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:47:43 -0500


David A Musick wrote:

>One of the limiting factors in human population is food production.
[...]

For a detailed and enthusiastic treatment of this theme, check out
_Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming: Ecology as the Basis for Design_ by
Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd of the New Alchemy Institute and Ocean Arks
International. ISBN:0-87156-814-4

They've built working prototypes of several of the projects they outline
(like the Sidewalk Aquaculture tanks, which were a long-time, very popular
exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston).

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