TY  - BOOK
AU  - Despommier,Dickson D.
TI  - The vertical farm: feeding the world in the 21st century 
SN  - 9780312611392 (alk. paper)
AV  - S494.5.U72 D47 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
KW  - Urban agriculture
KW  - Alternative agriculture
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Land use, Urban
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Remodeling nature -- Yesterday's agriculture -- Today's agriculture -- Tomorrow's agriculture -- The vertical farm: advantages -- The vertical farm: form and function -- The vertical farm: social benefits -- The vertical farm: alternate uses -- Food fast-forwarded
N2  - When the author, a Columbia professor, set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big, he thought up. His stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These multi-story intensely managed indoor farms, grown inside skyscrapers, are capable of producing traditional greenhouse crops, as well as pigs and fowl, year-round. They would provide solutions to many of the serious problems the world is facing
ER  -