An Array of Utopian Flowers
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LA River Revitalization: The Story of Master Plan Gone Awry
Posted on April 2, 2021 | 1 Comment - Biotonomy: Designing Nature-Based Autonomous Buildings and Cities
Posted on March 26, 2021 | 1 Comment - Paul Bowles Documentary: ‘Let it Come Down’
Posted on March 26, 2021 | 1 Comment - Foray into Fungi: The Art of Farming
Posted on March 18, 2021 | 1 Comment - Trees Please: Saving and Serving the Urban Forest
Posted on February 25, 2021 | 2 Comments
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
Neighborhood Revitalization Archive
Greening Detroit: Positive Change Moves Slow and Fast
Posted on July 10, 2014 | 2 CommentsOn one hand, Detroit turns the water off for communities challenged by its legacy of disinvestment and neglect. Yet, with urban farming, electric streetcars, neighborhood reinvention, Mayor Mike Duggan’s pledges begin to manifest in the city’s North End, despite considerable financial and cultural impediments. John Eligon elaborates.Urban Neighborhoods Revitalized with Certified Greening
Posted on October 3, 2012 | 1 CommentThree LEED-ND pilot participants—the Brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; the SALT District in Syracuse, New York; and Tassafaronga Village in Oakland, California—show promise as neighborhood-scale revitalized green adaptive reuse in a difficult economy.Reclaiming Houston: Greening of the Bayou
Posted on February 10, 2012 | 2 CommentsEven Houston, the fossil-fuel-driven, no-zoning-free-market-build-here-there-everywhere-city has found its sustainable voice with the water-park-wildlife-habitat reclamation of Buffalo Bayou.Detroit Heidelberg Project – Renaissance Through Urban Art
Posted on September 23, 2010 | 7 CommentsAn urban conceptual art installation called The Heidelberg Project, named after its street location in the formerly central core of Detroit, Michigan, transforms a neighborhood first devastated by the 1967 riots, plagued by unemployment, poverty, financial redlining, racial segregation, then abandoned, burned, and largely demolished but for a few homes set among open grassy fields.
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