This just in via Matt Jones‘ Twitter Stream. Mixed zoned land greening Philadelphia. Brilliant. And brilliantly executed by Front Studio and bldgblog.blogspot.com.

Farmadelphia Skyline

[Image: Front Studio. Philadelphia's "urban voids interwoven with agricultural patchwork" via bldgblog.blogspot.com ].

[Images: Front Studio.  Chickens hang out amidst lettuce via bldgblog.blogspot.com].

Long time readers will know I have a thing for Philly. So this makes so much sense.

One non-flippant  note on this. I’ve heard two very serious people talk about land use in the last 30 hours. The first was James Lovelock at yesterday’s Nature debate. Lovelock made very clear his view that improving land use was the single biggest thing we could do right now to tackle climate change.

The second was Alex Steffen during the course of his address to ETech earlier today:

Design and density is the single best investment we can make re sustainability. It dematerializes trips.