Edible Infrastructures: Greenhouse gases rise by record amount

Greenhouse gases rise by record amount

It seems that new figures from the US Dept of Energy indicate that we are outpacing even the 'worst case' scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions... see the story in the Guardian today:

Greenhouse gases rise by record amount

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/...

Levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago.

Edible Infrastructures is...

Edible Infrastructures is an investigation into a mode of urbanism which considers food as an integral part of a city's metabolic infrastructure. Working with algorithms as design tools, we explore the generative potential of such a system to create an urban ecology that: provides for its residents via local, multi-scalar, distributed food production, reconnects the traditional waste-nutrient cycle, and de-couple food costs from fossil fuels by limiting transport from source to table.

Our research is conducted through the building up of a sequence of algorithms, beginning with a Settlement Simulation, which couples consumers to productive surface area within a cellular automata type computational model. Through topological analysis and interpretation of the simulation output, we explore the hierarchical components for a new Productive City, including: the structure and programming of the urban circulatory network, an emergent urban morphology based around productive urban blocks, and opportunities for new architectural typologies.

The resulting prototypical Productive City questions the underlying mechanisms that shape modern urban space and demonstrates the architectural potential of mathematical modelling and simulation in addressing complex urban spatial and programmatic challenges.

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