While most of DC is concerned with imminent gentrification issues, the upcoming Target openings and "what is the next frontier after Petworth"? burning questions, tomorrow you get a chance to look a little further into the future.
(the inevitably overheated, overpolluted, overpopulated future, if I may say so myself.)
But then I have watched waaaaay too much "Brazil" and read too much "Good" Magazine not to be worried.
Others may very well be waaaaaay more optimistic.
On January 15th, The History Channel, with sponsors Infiniti and IBM, will challenge architects and designers nationwide to compete in City of the Future competitions in Washington, DC, San Francisco, and Atlanta.
8 teams in each city will have just one week to envision what their city might look like in 100 years, before presenting their 3-D model to a panel of five esteemed judges.
The DC contest is to take place tomorrow from 9 am to 5 pm at Union Station, is open to public and should be a super treat for designers, design buffs, historians and science fiction fans alike. Not to mention anyone who ever went to art school and has their adrenaline levels go up at the very thought of charretting.
I don't have a ven diagram to prove this, but I'd say that our readership gets blanketed pretty thoroughly within those categories.
want more details?
+Check out the pretty impressive photos from last year's challenge here
+Pick your favorite DC team here (it isn't a competition unless you want someone to lose, I mean, win)
+Or just go to the mainpage here: http://www.history.com/minisites/cityofthefuture/
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- 2/13: 101 Reasons To Love DC-Part 1
- 2/10: DC News You Can (Maybe) Use
- 2/9: DC News You Can (Maybe) Use
- 2/8: DC News You Can (Maybe) Use
- 2/8: Perfect Date Outfits + Outings
- 2/7: DC News You Can (Maybe) Use
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- 2/1: DC News You Can (Maybe) Use:
God loves a cheerful giver.
"it isn’t a competition unless you want someone to lose, I mean, win" - ha! i love it.
this will be awesome. 9 to 5? those poor timecard punchers..
its funny the people that are "concerned" with the gentrification of DC are the same people who are causing it...silly hipsters.
hipsters causing gentification? hahahaha!!! oh.... ah... ahem. ah... hahahahaha!!!
adam's killing it.
typo
My DC of the future would have me + 1500 women, all bisexual.
I could live in a different house every day and ride my motorcycles crazy-like everywhere.
Ok, maybe a couple other dudes, like one or two, who like whisky and fast bikes so we could hang out and talk about how we did some of the women the night before.
Perfect.