Urban Current

A new project in Berlin, Fresh from the Roof (Frisch vom Dach), plans to install a 2-acre aquaponic farm on the roof of an unused factory in the heart of the city. The farm’s harvest will be distributed right from the factory building, activating the property at street level as well. Aquaponics, a type of [...]

Earlier this summer GMF’s Urban and Regional Policy Program led a delegation of practitioners from Detroit, MI to Turin, Italy to examine Turin’s historic and vibrant network of open-air markets. The urban markets study tour was part of the on-going Detroit-Torino Partnership project sponsored by the Kresge Foundation and was one outcome of the initial Detroit [...]