GrowingCities is a research and design think-tank focused on exposing the potential in urban agriculture. They believe that the growing movement of local food production has the power to vastly benefit our cities – socially, environmentally, and bodily.
Saranga Nakhooda and Devin Lafo founded growingCities in 2010 upon graduating from the Master of Architecture program at Columbia University GSAPP.
The world’s population is becoming increasingly urban. Understanding, evaluating
and re-envisioning the systems by which cities operate are crucial steps towards creating
a sustainable future, and to affecting positive change through architecture and design.
As city life becomes progressively dominant, we become increasingly distant from our
food sources – a trend that has profound implications in terms of both food security
and environmental impact. On average, major cities import 6,000 tons of food each day,
with an average distance of 1,700 miles between grower and consumer.These design proposals imagine an alternate possibility, one in which urban dwellers can
grow their own food – expanding the economic base of the city, connecting people to a
natural food cycle, and reducing food cost while increasing food quality.
Some of their urban agriculture proposals are really innovative. Green desks, lamp posts and growing food in empty apartments sound like the way of the future!
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