Urban Agriculture Part II: Designing Out the Distance

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A rooftop garden in San Francisco. © Peter Dasilva for the New York Times.

“The typical Urban Dweller today has no understanding of where or how food is produced/distributed. We have become dependent on huge, powerful, profit-minded corporations to bring huge quantities of food from industrial farms into our supermarkets – but the entire process is hidden, massively complex, and, ultimately, unsustainable.”

In Part I of this Series, I made the case that Urban Agriculture has incredible potential; unfortunately, however, in America, it has a long way to go. Our economy, our government, our technology, even our perception of what “food” is relies upon the Food System we currently have in place. Urban Agriculture could very well be the answer, but, frankly, not yet.

So where does that leave us today?

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Cite: Vanessa Quirk. "Urban Agriculture Part II: Designing Out the Distance" 29 May 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/238382/urban-agriculture-part-ii-designing-out-the-distance> ISSN 0719-8884

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