Connecting the City: A Vertical Farm for Baltimore's Food Desert
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2017-10-31
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Virginia Tech
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The thesis analyzes Baltimore City's food network, and seeks a site which has the potential for several factors: site accessibility, renewable resources, solar exposure, and connecting the community. These factors serve as the basis in which to build a hybrid prototype that is able to expose people to the process of food production through a combination of traditional outdoor farming methods and indoor hydroponics in the form of a vertical farm.
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vertical farm, central farm, farmland, connectivity, live, work, grow, community, food desert, impoverish neighborhoods, Baltimore City