Posted on 13 August 2009.
Urban Re:Vision Competition Brings Urban Farming and Net-Zero Energy to Texas
Community sustainability nonprofit places Dallas at the top of its urban triage list
By Zach Mortice
Associate Editor
How do you . . . design a residential mixed-use urban farming building that helps to rehabilitate a sprawling and disconnected Middle American city?
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Posted on 12 August 2009.
My name is David Baker and I’m an architect in San Francisco. We work on high density affordable urban infill housing.
And my role in transportation, that’s my hobby. I’m interested in these things because I think the thing about architects is they have a tendency to think inside the property line. Then the property line comes and it’s just “what’s that?†All it is about their building, how they fit in just as a completely separate little isolated entity. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 August 2009.
1. What are your thoughts about sustainability today? How would you define it?
My own definition continues to evolve, it seems. Today I feel sustainability is another word for good design.
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