Cities are developing extremely rapidly, and they already use 75% of the Earth’s resources. Their area is increasing at a slower rate than the population density, which means that an increasingly smaller area is inhabited by an increasingly growing number of people who do not produce but need food. In response to the potential crisis situations and the necessity of ensur- ing food safety to the inhabitants, some of the largest metropolitan areas of the world are developing food strategies that take into consideration food production in the city. A lot of countries are implementing solutions that enable putting into effect the idea of energetic and food self-sufficiency of cities. Vertical city farms are being established. Also, theoretical designs of self-sufficient smart cities are being developed to meet the conditions defined by the modern-day vertical farms. They as- sume the form of compact structures, single farms: smart eco-cities and smart eco-cities made up of several vertical farms.

Miasta rozwijaja sie niezwykle szybko i już wykorzystuja 75% zasobów Ziemi. Ich powierzchnia zwieksza sie dużo wolniej niż gestosc zaludnienia, co oznacza, _e na coraz mniejszym obszarze mieszka coraz wiecej ludzi, którzy nie produkuja, ale potrzebuja żywnosci. W reakcji na potencjalne sytuacje kryzysowe i koniecznosc zapewnienia bezpieczenstwa żywnosciowego mieszkańcom, nie- które z najwiekszych metropolii swiata opracowuja strategie żywnosciowe uwzgledniajace produkcje żywnosci w miescie. W wielu krajach wdrażane sa różne rozwiazania pozwalajace realizowac idee energetycznej i żywnosciowej samowystarczalnosci miast. Realizowane sa miejskie farmy pionowe. Powstaja też teoretyczne projekty samowystarczalnych inteligentnych miast, które spełniaja warunki okreslone przez definicje współczesnych farm pionowych. Przybieraja one forme zwartych struktur, pojedynczych farm: inteligentnych eco-miast oraz inteligentnych eco-miast utworzonych z kilku farm pionowych.

Smart city by vertical farm. Selected examples of solutions

Abstract

Cities are developing extremely rapidly, and they already use 75% of the Earth’s resources. Their area is increasing at a slower rate than the population density, which means that an increasingly smaller area is inhabited by an increasingly growing number of people who do not produce but need food. In response to the potential crisis situations and the necessity of ensur- ing food safety to the inhabitants, some of the largest metropolitan areas of the world are developing food strategies that take into consideration food production in the city. A lot of countries are implementing solutions that enable putting into effect the idea of energetic and food self-sufficiency of cities. Vertical city farms are being established. Also, theoretical designs of self-sufficient smart cities are being developed to meet the conditions defined by the modern-day vertical farms. They as- sume the form of compact structures, single farms: smart eco-cities and smart eco-cities made up of several vertical farms.