ideal job v0.3

criteria for an ideal job (updated from v0.2):

• Helping local communities adapt to global issues (i.e. climate change, water management, food security, high-density urban living, equity, biodiversity)
• Focus on intersection land use, economy and ecology
• Creative and challenging, experimentation and adventure
• Researching complex systems, finding simplicity and elegance in solutions
• Not at the same desk everyday
• Variety of tasks: design, analysis, graphics, words, communication, introverted focus, research, interpretation, proposing new ideas/vision along with discussion and refinement, experiments
• Working within an effective organization with inspiring, motivated colleagues.
• Independence in approach and process, dependence in terms of outcomes
• Active

urbanLab’s growing water

The recent issue of Planetizen pulled my attention to a recent “City of the Future” design winner, Urban Lab’s Growing Water project in Chicago.  Their presentation is tight, to the point and graphically compelling.  It’s a big idea, connecting critical issues of the future to a systematized, on-the-ground solution.

urban lab growing water

I like Chicago’s city motto: urbs in horto.

Urban rainwater, in order to be harvested, reused or re-introduced into our rivers and lakes, must be filtered. The proposal of eco-boulevards focuses on biofiltration of rainwater as integrated, distributed urban infrastructure. How can we begin to make this happen? Does the Bay Area need an urban eco-lab?

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