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Chicago Shines With Sustainable Design

Posted by: Deborah Myerson

11 September 2006 - 8:00am

A new exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art highlights several new building plans likely to advance the city's vision to become the "greenest city in America."

"Sustainable Architecture in Chicago: Works in Progress" is the name of a new exhibit to showcase seven up and coming environmentally sensitive projects by Chicago architecture firms. The projects were selected with an eye on the discernible influence of green design on each project's architectural aesthetics. Featured projects range from public spaces to affordable housing—all located in Chicago, except for the Pearl River tower in China that seeks to use green technologies to produce most of its own energy.

Full Story: Green ideas ready to bloom
Source: Chicago Sun-Times, September 7, 2006
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It is hard to think of a starker contrast than that between Moses modernism and Jacobs localism. Yet the standoff between Jacobs and Moses only ever sparred two separate wings of the middle class concerning how to build and rebuild the city for people of greater rather than lesser class privilege.
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