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Burning Bright: the Black Rock City Experiment
By Adam Brock . What if ecological city planners were given a chance to design a city from the ground up, in a completely empty landscape? What if the city was decreed to have zero environmental...
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Bioneering in Baltimore
By Adam Brock Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons are the mixtape DJs of the sustainability movement: just below the radar of the mainstream, but with impeccable taste for what’s next. Since 1990 the pair...
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Revisioning City Planning, Open Source Style
By Adam Brock I just discovered Re:Vision, a San Francisco-based site intent on utilizing the power of the masses to reinvent urban planning. Started at the beginning of 2007, Re:vision sponsors a...
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Can It!
By Nelson Harvey One of the best ways to insure that important problems get solved is to make it fun to solve them. That’s the spirit behind “Canstruction,” a national competition that pits design...
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NYC asks “What If?”
After reading my post on Re:vision, my buddy Ryan over at the New School Sustainability Committee alerted me to another effort at crowdsourcing city planning – this one a little closer to home. What If...
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Scale Linking in the Savannah
By Adam Brock I’m still trippin’ out on the latest TED Talk by Ron Eglash. The ethno-mathematician spent a year searching for fractal patterns in African villages, and found that self-similarity...
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Envisioning Gateway
By Adam Brock Gateway National Recreation Area is one of New York City’s best-kept natural secrets. A collection of playing fields, tidal marshes and islands on the southeastern edge of Brooklyn,...
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Grass Roof in Singapore
Where are the buildings like this in the states?? Credit: flickr/vincent_flames
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Metropolitan Green and the Regeneration of Urban Space
By Adam Brock Is all the good space left in New York gone? With construction cranes and scaffolding as ubiquitous as taxis these days, it’s easy to think that within a few years every square foot of...
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Repost: Burning Bright – The Black Rock City Experiment
As this year’s Burning Man draws near, I thought it would be appropriate to repost this writeup from an event I attended in NYC a couple years back. It discusses what we can learn about city planning,...
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