[bb2018]

This article compares growing food like wheat locally and rightfully points out how insane that would be in terms of land required. Growing some specialized foods locally is what others have suggested but I still find this extremely misguided.

First, as a citizen of a large city, if we are going to give valuable land to a large building is it really beneficial to make it a farm? Making space for housing (whether affordable or regular apartments) seems more appropriate for most cities.

Second, as a consumer, would I really prefer the building crop to a the crop of a farm about an hour or two away from the city? Probably not (and especially not if tower fruit is more expensive).

[mrep]

Most of the US is does not have high land prices because they are not space constrained; it's basically just the west coast [0].

[0]: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/