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Graduate students at the University of Minnesota’s School of Architecture will showcase design ideas for the future of Ford Motor Companies’ Twin Cities Assembly Plant this week. Mayor Chris Coleman and members of a task force investigating the St. Paul plant will be in attendance to examine the proposals. The designs will be on display […]
Treasure Island Plan: Most sustainable city on the planet
Treasure Island, the man-made lump made up of 20 million cubic yards of sea floor soil sandwiched between 287,000 tons of rock and finally glazed over with 50,000 yards of loam.
The island was created for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition and then claimed as a Naval […]
Victory Programs’ revision Urban Farm Chosen as 2008 Boston Social …
Non-profit business venture to receive support from network of Boston-area venture philanthropists BOSTON, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Victory Programs’ ReVision Urban Farm, a farm serving families facing homelessness in Dorchester, is among six area nonprofits selected as a 2008 Social Innovator by the Cambridge-based Social […]
This city’s ready for own wonder
Like Babylon, the Calgary Chamber of Commerce believes this city needs an architectural wonder of the world.
The hottest and most dazzling new phenomenon is an urban farm scheme, called skyfarming, invented at New York’s Columbia University.
Dickson Despommier, a visionary professor of environmental science and microbiology, wants to transform […]
BRIEFS: USA & WORLD
Veggie patch recovery planned
NEW ORLEANS — After months of intense community planning, parishioners at Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church have begun laying the groundwork for an urban farm, with the hope of rebuilding the rich communal vegetable gardens that once mimicked rural Vietnam in suburban New Orleans.
The working farm will be […]
