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Suburbia After the Crash

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The world is facing a crisis of debt, a crisis of truth, a crisis of sprawl and a crisis of purpose, what can design do? Volume #9 predicted the crisis and its effects on suburbia, Archis RSVP #13 came together to record the aftermath of the crisis in the Detroit suburb of Warren. C-LAB's Imagining Recovery competition gathered ideas for how to move forward. This dossier accumulates approaches and strategies ranging from design proposals to grass roots activities that are dealing with the heritage of the suburban sprawl in the aftermath of the crisis.


FWD: August

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This is the first of the FWD series, which summarizes hand picked content I find elsewhere on the web and would like to share with you. from the In the Shadow of Progress a picture show on the GOOD website. The stark reality of this moment in time is that many people are losing their [...]

Posted by Edwin Gardner on 26-08-2009
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Reburbia competition

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Suburbia is getting its fair share of attention currently and with reason, as prophesied Volume’s 2006 #9 issue, the urgency to reinvent the suburban mode of living has never been greater. In order to address this urgency Dwell Magazine and Inhabitat.com have announced the Reburbia competition: a design competition dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs.

Posted by Edwin Gardner on 10-07-2009
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Embracing the shrink paradigm

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via Sustainable Cities Collective

Posted by Edwin Gardner on 17-06-2009
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Imaging Recovery Exhibition at Berlage

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Imagining Recovery is an exhibition based on an international competition charging designers to collectively imagine innovation recovery through design. Designers were asked to offer their expertise in designing a means of getting from the present to the image of recovery.

Posted by Edwin Gardner on 10-06-2009
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  • | Detroit Unreal Estate Agency
  • | Shrinking Cities Institute
  • | The Shrinking Cities Project

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