By Robert Wilonsky in News You Can Actually Use, Actually John Greenan has made it official: He and Brent Brown are going forward with Forwarding Dallas to fill that parking lot behind Dallas City Hall with a self-sustaining building. Says Greenan of his decision to go with the Portuguese architects behind the downtown hillside, “Dallas would be a richer [...]
By Tim McKeough If all goes as planned, a self-sustaining, mixed-use project conceived by a team of Portugese architects will be constructed on a city block in Texas. In December, Portugal-based Atelier Data and MOOV were named the winners of Re:Vision Dallas, an international competition put on by the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation (CDCDC), [...]
The Re:Visionary Project – Van Jones from Urban ReVision on Vimeo. Van Jones is an eco-visionary, award-winning human rights attorney and powerhouse speaker. He is the founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC), a strategy and action center, working for justice, peace, and opportunity in urban America. He has served on the [...]
Imagine, if you will, a utopia smack in the heart of downtown Dallas. In this green, sustainable building of tomorrow, you might roll out of bed, take a shower and find your runoff water feeding vegetation growing on the roof and walls, upon which you’ll feast later that night. Or maybe you’ll move downtown and [...]
Courtesy Treehugger writer Jesse Fox, we bring this interview with Stacey Frost of Urban Re:Vision. “A block is to the city as a cell is to the human body.” Stacey Frost is an interesting woman, to say the least. When this former cattle rancher, neuropsychologist and options trader decided to focus on renovating historical buildings, [...]
Conveniently timed to take place one day before the kickoff of Ecobuild Emirates, TEDx Dubai has hit the radar. Organized by Giorgio Ungania (an Apple Distinguished Educator and Marketing Manager for SAE) and James Piecowye (DubaiEye host and professor at Zayed University), the Dubai event appears to be organizing as one of the more visible, regionally/globally [...]
Hat tip to Cameron Sinclair: It’s enough to make a San Franciscans choke on their morning bowl of organic hand-rolled granola but Dallas, the new home town of President Bush, is developing the greenest city block in America through a competition called Re:Vision Dallas. The competition is the brainchild of Urban Re:Vision, founded by Stacey Frost, and is the sixth [...]
This week we are in San Francisco supporting Urban Re:Vision for a 2-day intensive design session to redefine the city’s Civic Center district using Re:Vision’s Unified Conceptual Framework which is currently guiding our sister project, Re:Vision Dallas. To quote Mayor Gavin Newsom’s goal: “We are transforming our Civic Center into a global model for how [...]
Re:Vision Dallas, the competition which gives creative urban design and community development professionals around the world a solid chance at creating America’s first fully sustainable innercity block, is sweeping social media around the world. Find out about it at www.revision-dallas.com. Enter the competition at www.urbanrevision.com. In addition to Italy, Serbia, United Kingdom, Brazil, Russia and [...]
Dallas, TX - December 2, 2008 — The City of Dallas will host a full-day “Design Charrette” this Friday to examine the necessary framework and community impact of what will become the first fully sustainable, urban square block in the United States. The Charrette, attended by community design and urban planning experts from across the nation, [...]
Deborah Lindsay of Tomorrow Matters hosted Stacey Frost for a one-hour interview on URBAN RE:VISION and its most current competitions and activities. It is one of the most elequent and comprehendable overview’s we have ever organized. Take a listen: [download mp3]. Visit Tomorrow Matter’s online: [click here]. To learn about Re:Vision 6, the latest competition in [...]
Imagine a city where renewable energy is generated by helium-filled “solar balloons” floating hundreds of feet above the rooftops. Imagine a city where public transportation doesn’t follow regular routes, but is efficiently directed on demand, via cell phone and GPS technology. A city where walls and fences are replaced with structures, such as shared kitchen [...]
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