Onukwubiri, Enyinnaya Tochukwu2017-11-012017-11-012017-10-31vt_gsexam:12407http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79901The 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.ETDIn Copyrightvertical farmcentral farmfarmlandconnectivityliveworkgrowcommunityfood desertimpoverish neighborhoodsBaltimore CityThesis