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The Reburbia project – a very cool suburban design competition

August 12, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
community, design, markettransformation, planning, retrofittingsuburbs, smartercities, smartgrowth, sprawl, suburbs

  Dwell Magazine and Inhabitat.com are currently hosting a very fun exercise called Reburbia, a design competition dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs.  As explained on the project's website: "In a future where limited natural resources will force us to find...continued

So, is it an advanced car? A living room on wheels? The end of the world as we know it? You decide.

July 10, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
cars, community, design, driverless, driving, future, MikeandMaaike, smartgrowth

You know, I don't think this design for a driverless car was created with tongue in cheek, though it certainly could have been.  I generally think of futuristic designers and Google-ites as a fun bunch, so surely this is intended...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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