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How To Get School Children Access To Urban Farming By Activating Vacant Land And Rooftops, Yixin Ren
How To Get School Children Access To Urban Farming By Activating Vacant Land And Rooftops, Yixin Ren
Masters Theses
The thesis topic is how to get school children access to urban farming by activating vacant land and rooftops.
Phase one focuses on research about the rooftop urban farming systems in New York. As a high density and high land value city, New York is one of the cities with the largest number of rooftop farms in the United States. People use urban rooftop farms as a medium to improve community engagement and improve environmental issues. For phase one, this thesis researched the operation and conditions of existing rooftop farms, and evaluated the advantages and disadvantages of them to figure …