Urban Planning For People & Place
Urban Planning For People & Place
What are you attached to? From the earth under our feet to the people who surround us, we are all enmeshed within environments and relationships. We are linked to the food we eat and the water we drink, as much as to the structures we build. We are part of our past—but how will we grow into our future? Re:Connect is a chance to examine our attachments within a city block and find ways to make them stronger, whether it’s how we communicate, how we create or how we interrelate.
The Panel of judges
Laurie Schoeman
National Director, Resilience and Recovery
Celeste LeCompte
Sustainable Industries Magazine
Al Green
Future Planning, Green Design
themes that emerged
Along with incredible ideas, some interesting themes emerged from Re:Connect. Nature, from the inspiration of cellular biology to harnessing the power of the wind to integrating Community Supported Agriculture, was very apparent. The power of multi-generational interaction also ran through many designs. And, oddly enough, the romantic notion of reusing shipping containers on a large scale came up a bit.