Italian architect Stefano Boeri is bringing nature into big cities with his "vertical forest" concept for sustainable ...

What if instead of just building high-rises, we designed vertical communities that blend living, leisure, and commerce into a sustainable ecosystem? A harmonious blend of nature and urban design ...

The same Oklahoma study referenced above found that the vertical farm consumed more energy and had higher carbon dioxide ...

Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, has proposed “vertical farming”: growing food—including fish and poultry—in urban buildings as tall ...

“Vertical Urban Utopias,” under Professors Michael Trencher and Kathleen Dunne and assisted by Professors Shannon Hayes and Scott Deng, hosted an evening workshop with participants from the Council on ...

Known as the Urban Farming Office, the concrete-framed building is adorned with a "vertical farm" of vegetables, fruits, and herbs, reflecting the studio's expertise in plant-filled, low-energy ...

Going by the acute accommodation challenges in Nigerian cities, housing experts are suggesting the construction of 50 to 60 towers of 20 -storey buildings in Lagos and Abuja to lessen the burden.

Boeri's Vertical Forests reimagine buildings as enormous air purifiers ... producing oxygen and absorbing all the dust produced by the urban traffic. In Nanjing, we'll have two towers -- one ...