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.
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?
