The New City: Rooted in Tomorrow Part 2 Project 2024 Rory McCormack Queen's University Belfast | UK This thesis explores the fusion of hyper-growth farming methods, the infrastructural complexities of urban landscapes and rural landscape emancipation through the restructuring of societies relationship with food. By deconstructing societies inefficient modalities for food production, can we use modernist mechanisms of densification to recentralise our food systems in the form of Vertical Farming towers. Through the use of precision agricultural mechanisms we can sustain an exponentially growing population amidst the finite resources we have available. The lack of infrastructural transparency in the 21st century has led to isolated systems that the public can't or won't trust. environmental crisis exacerbated by the human condition means food security is in doubt and food miles are increasing at an exponential rate leaving us afraid to ask the question - How local is local? By taking lessons from the 19th and 20th century around sustainable models for urban densification and civic facing, transparent infrastructure can we redefine society's relationship with food as something that should be celebrated not simply consumed. Finally, with these newly liberated landscapes that housed the inefficient food systems we can then return them to demesne, Leisure landscapes. Public areas that allow respite and breathing space from the pursuit of modernity. Tutor(s) Gary Boyd Tom Jefferies