Category:Urban agriculture
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Plants in the city can:
- can reduce temperatures, if planted in sufficient numbers, reducing the need for air conditioning and improving quality of life.
- provide fresh produce, which potentially has requires less resources to grow than produce transported from outside the city, and should be much fresher and thus better tasting - especially in the case of highly perishable produce such as salad greens.
- improve the appearance and feeling of the surroundings
- provide insulation (in the form of a green roofWP).
- be used indoors as living wallsWP to help cure sick building syndromeWP
Living wallsWP and green roofsWP are space-efficient ways of bringing plants into the city.
[edit] See also
- Category:Urban planning#City-Country Fingers - a "starfish" form, with interlocking fingers of farmland and urban land.
[edit] External links
- Vertical Gardens: The Organic Wallpaper - from Worldchanging.com
- Urban Agriculture in the Developing World - from Worldchanging.com
- Upside-down tomato planters - commercial site.
Categories: Stubs | Agriculture | Cities | Green living
