{"id":23,"date":"2008-05-12T22:56:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T03:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-05-12T23:02:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T04:02:27","slug":"urban-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Urban Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truly new thinking always has to break through a barrier of skepticism before gaining wider adoption.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure this is true of <a href=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/2008\/03\/30\/5-urban-design-proposals-for-3d-city-farms-sustainable-ecological-and-agricultural-skyscrapers\/\">Urban Farms<\/a>, an idea that at first blush sounds slightly crazy, but may have real benefits.\u00a0 It seems that in a world of increasing transportation costs, producing food right in an urban center could have some desirable economic motives, although frankly I have no idea if the numbers would really work out or not.<br \/>\n<center><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kbqs9L9IMvk&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kbqs9L9IMvk&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\nTechnically, what first comes to mind is the difficulty of distributing sunlight into the structure.\u00a0 But maybe you don&#8217;t need full on sunlight to grow some vegetables, and incident light could be diffused somehow over a wider area in the building by light piping.At any rate this might actually be something worth seeing in Vegas if it gets built.<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truly new thinking always has to break through a barrier of skepticism before gaining wider adoption.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure this is true of Urban Farms, an idea that at first blush sounds slightly crazy, but may have real benefits.\u00a0 It seems that in a world of increasing transportation costs, producing food right in an urban center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}