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ResilientCity.org is a not-for-profit network of architects, urban planners and designers, engineers, and landscape architects focused on developing creative, practical, and implementable resilient planning and building design strategies that help address our century's most important challenge: namely, dealing with the significant problems that will be associated with climate change and peak oil in the context of human settlement. >>> See more about our mission

Featured Past Ideas Competition Entries

	food = utility: Acknowledges that FOOD IS A PUBLIC GOOD. This opens the doors for government incentivizing (tax-breaks, lease-holds, use of existing resource infrastructures such as water, composting services, etc.) which ensures more distributed access.  An inter- connected organizational model which uses existing land and resource infrastructures (ex. schools, easements,mexisting stores, etc.) to create a network of radial Food Utility Districts.	⇒More Info
	Hill of the Wind: Located at the north east side of Mexico City, Ecatepec is a typical poverty and uncontrolled spread periferical neighborhood of Latin America. The skyline is marked by huge ugly and unfinished residential zones, construction ruins among open empty areas that will be occupied during the next years resulting in a stupid extended low density urban development.	⇒More Info

Announcing the 2010 ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition!

The 2010 ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition is an exciting opportunity for architects, city planners, urban designers, engineers, and landscape architects, including students, graduate students and interns of these disciplines around the world to contribute ideas about creating more resilient cities.

The purpose of the ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition is to stimulate thinking and discourse about how to increase the resilience of our cities as we move into a century where our cities will be subjected to the combined environmental and economic impacts of both Peak Oil and Climate Change.

There are many possible opportunities for increasing the resilience of our cities, and in this design ideas competition we are looking for your to propose and explore ideas about how you would propose to increase the resilience of the city you live in.  To this end, the 2010 competition’s theme will be “Building Urban Resilience where you are with what you have.”

Like last year’s competition there will be a $1,000 CAN prize for best planning and design idea, but there will be an additional prize of $1,000 CAN for the best video mini-documentary.

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