[Oratam]

Contemporary satellite image of New York:

How these visionaries imagine the city in 2049:

This is from the book Manahatta by Eric W. Sanderson. In this vision of the future several areas will be reserved for high rises in the city including downtown Manhattan, Brooklyn Heights and Long Island City.

Sanderson foresees most of Long Island, Staten Island, Brooklyn and all of Jersey City will become farmland again.

He never explains where all the people have gone.

[wheresmyusa]

Thank you for that post! Looks like i found my next book...

[tbw2]

Why make it farmland? High-rise farms have greater potential economies of scale? Or community gardens on all blighted and delapidated buildings cleared away, which has a communitarian feel while making use of currently unemployed?