This is by my partner Jacob Lange and I, our entry for the WPA 2.0 competition out of UCLA this past fall. We didn't win, but learned tons about this sort of conceptual urban thinking.
(from the WPA 2.0 website)
We seek projects that consider and explore the value of infrastructure not merely as an engineering endeavor, but as a robust design opportunity to strengthen communities and revitalize the city. Unlike the previous era, the next generation of such projects will require surgical integration into the existing urban fabric, and will work by intentionally linking systems of points, lines and landscapes, hybridizing economies with ecologies and over- lapping architecture with planning. These systems include but are not limited to parks, schools, open space, vehicle storage, sewers, roads, transportation, storm water, waste, food systems, recreation, local economies, ‘green’ infrastructure, fire prevention, markets, landfills, energy-generating facilities, cemeteries, and smart utilities.
the winner:
Nice graphics, interesting idea. The industrial canal in New Orleans, aside from being a busy shipping lane, has been the center of ship maintenance and repainting and jebus know what else for perhaps 200 years. Them waters must be thick with lead, heavy metals and carcinogens!
