Wow, tough crowd today... this blog post wasn't meant to be a comprehensive design, just a high-level idea I wanted to capture/jot down. The subcomponents aren'

Wow, tough crowd today... this blog post wasn't meant to be a comprehensive design, just a high-level idea I wanted to capture/jot down. The subcomponents aren't original, so I didn't spend too much time explaining them. The urban greenhouse component is better known as vertical farming (http://www.verticalfarm.com/ http://www.verticalfarm.com/); much analysis has been done on the idea, including advantages to having farms in the city, near the populace. The waste-treatment idea is better known as living machines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_machines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_machines), also widely analyzed and implemented.