Space Apps Challenge 2017

The overview of this project was to connect climate change to the quality of life of New Yorkers. We wanted to hone in on low income neighborhoods, because they are usually at risk for vulnerabilities of ecological factors. We saw that the Urban Heat Island Effect which greatly impacts NYC as a whole as a special negative impact on low income neighborhoods. We offered the solution urban farming to not only help curb this phenomena and also help economically empower low income neighborhoods as well. We then expanded on the other aspects that are negatively affecting low income neighborhoods, such as, food accessibility to prove out point why urban farming can help all urban communities can help them in particular with economic development.

Resources:

https://www.weather.gov/media/okx/Climate/CentralP...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829214001087

https://newyork.placeilive.com/New_York_City_Bronx/factories#40.85048495859835/-73.84947058499999/11

https://landsat.visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=6800

http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=mes_capstones

http://thisbigcity.net/data-farming-demonstrating-the-benefits-of-urban-agriculture/

https://farmingconcrete.org/barn/static/resources/DataCollectionToolkit.pdf

https://www.chicagobotanic.org/urbanagriculture/corps