Remaking cities, one block at a time

Re:Vision Dallas is turning an old downtown block-square parking lot into a working laboratory for a new, green urbanism. Nothing is more daunting that turning dirty old urban landscape into a place for people to live and work and entertain themselves, so Re:Vision Dallas is making a competition out of the challenge.

The mayor’s involved, the land has been bought, and a $25,000 prize awaits the three winning entries. Once this old asphalt square becomes a beautiful new sustainable city block, Re:Vision’s headed to San Francisco to deal with one of the ugliest urban sites in America, yet one with probably the most potential: San Francisco’s wind-swept Civic Center Plaza with its filthy cracked concrete.

Mayor Gavin Newsom is already on board. If Re:Vision can make something of Civic Center Plaza, mayors across the country will be fighting to turn over blighted city spaces to Re:Vision projects.

Re:Vision Dallas Seeks Input from Design Visionaries [TreeHugger]
Re:Vision Dallas competition now open [UrbanRe:Vision]