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This Labor Day Weekend, "Snap" Your Public Lands

September 3, 2009 by Danielle Brigida
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Labor Day weekend might mean the end of summer days, but it's still a great excuse to spend some quality time outdoors. Even if you can only spare a few hours this weekend, consider getting together with your friends or family to take a quick trip to your nearest public... [read more]

Vancouver gets creative with density

August 28, 2009 by Kaid Benfield
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  If the Reburbia contest sponsored by Dwell and Inhabitat was all about flights of imagination to reconceive suburbs, then FormShift Vancouver, a competition sponsored by the Architectural Institute of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver, was all about flights of imagination in reconceiving cities.  But, unlike the... [read more]

Winner of Reburbia Competition Would Turn “McMansions” into Water-Filtering Wetlands

August 25, 2009 by The Dirt ASLA
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Inhabitat and Dwell magazine have announced the winners of Reburbia, a suburban design competition, which sought new ideas for “retrofitting surburbia.” (see earlier post). After receiving hundreds of entries, Inhabitat and Dwell narrowed the selection down to 20 finalists, then three winning entries, along with one... [read more]

New Reburbia

August 12, 2009 by Geoff Manaugh
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The 400+ submissions to Reburbia have been whittled down to only 20 finalists – and they're now up for public voting.[Image: The "Brick Habitats" by Chooi-Leng Tan are "a modular system of bricks which allows us to create a wide range of features on the side of our buildings including habitats for plants and animals, water bowls/baths,... [read more]

Call for Designers

August 6, 2009 by topophilia landscape art urbanism
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The Center for Urban Pedagogy has put out a call for designers wishing to collaborate with policy makers to communicate public policy issues. Deadline is August 20, 2009 for statements of interest and portfolios.The following groups and issues were selected by the CUP jury: + Keeping parks public with FIERCE + Participating in... [read more]

Visual clues of a living city

July 20, 2009 by Marc Lefkowitz
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Here are three great ways to help show the world what vitality in the Rust Belt looks like. 1. Cleveland State University's Levin College of Urban Affairs is holding an urban agriculture photo exhibit. “The theme is ‘Feeding Cleveland’. We are looking for images of the greater Cleveland area that convey the role that urban... [read more]

Tackling Suburbia

July 12, 2009 by Jason King
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The latest competition out there challenging entrants to envision visionary designs is Reburbia: A Suburban Design Competition that focuses on the suburbs as the venue for exploration. Sponsored by Inhabitat and Dwell, the premise is open and relatively simple:"Show us how you would re-invent the suburbs! What would a McMansion become... [read more]

$50,000 ITS Congestion Challenge

June 21, 2009 by Jack Mason
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Have an innovative idea on how to solve traffic congestion?   The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), in partnership with IBM and Spencer Trask Collaborative Innovations (STCI), has launched a global challenge to identify innovative ideas for combating transportation congestion. ITS... [read more]

Whoever Rules the Sewers Rules the City

June 11, 2009 by Geoff Manaugh
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UCLA's cityLAB has launched a new design competition called (somewhat lamely) WPA 2.0, where the WPA refers to the Works Progress Administration. But the competition itself looks cool. Its tagline? Whoever Rules the Sewers Rules the City. It's a call for new visions of urban infrastructure:We encourage projects that explore the value of... [read more]

Where’s My $50k?

June 2, 2009 by Ryan Avent
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I don’t get this: The Intelligence Transportation Society of America (ITSA) kicked off a $50,000 “Congestion Challenge” today that seeks to pair social networking with innovative transportation policy-making. Co-sponsored by Spencer Trask, a private equity firm specializing in high-tech investments, the contest asks transportation... [read more]

How to Clean Your Plate (in NYC): Review and GIVEAWAY!

May 5, 2009 by Beth Buczynski
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I recently had the pleasure of meeting nutritional and wellness counselor (and newly minted author!) Jared Koch in New York City. He graciously offered to send me a couple of copies of his exciting new book, Clean Plates NYC - the ONLY nutritionist and food critic-approved lifestyle book and guide featuring the healthiest, tastiest and... [read more]