The Self-Sufficient City
In modern home design, going green is no longer the exception but the norm. While we've summited this hill, there's still an ominous mountain before us: off-the-grid cities. For the third Advanced Architecture Contest, architects, planners, designers, and artists around the world are being asked to propose ideas for the self-sufficienty city.
Ideas for self-sufficient cities has been popping up with increased frequency. Earlier this year, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce announced its intent to develop a "free zone" and GCLA, a multinational landscape architecture firm based in the United Arab Emirates, presented a design called Food City(below left). Around the same time, Dutch design firm MVRDV won the Gwanggyo Power Center Competition (below right) for a self-suffficient city just south of Seoul, South Korea. The projects feature multi-level landscapes (green roofs, vertical planting and farming), circular cradle-to-cradle systems for waste products to become resources, and emphases on mixed-use spaces such as public parks that also function as grazing fields for livestock.
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I expect that this is not what this competition may be all about, but a great discussion of Detroit's potential to be the first city to grow its food requirements entirely within its borders is here: http://www.guernicamag.com/spotlight/1182/food_among_the_ruins/
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