The document describes a competition that challenged teams to imagine and design cities 100 years in the future based on principles of biomimicry and sustainability. Eight teams were given one week to design three different cities - New York, Washington D.C., and San Francisco - focusing on reimagining elements like transportation, neighborhoods, water and energy systems, and buildings in a way that mimics natural ecosystems. The goal was to move beyond traditional urban planning and design cities that are resilient, optimize resources, and live in harmony with the environment like a forest.

1. The City of the Future

2. What will the City be like in 100 years?

3. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

4. We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Joan Didion

5. 1 week to design
3 cities explored
8 teams per city
3 hours to assemble
10 minutes to present

6. In the spirit of world’s fairs and futurist
planning schemes everywhere, this
competition challenges participants to
peer into that future, to imagine the bold,
visionary architectural and engineering
solutions that will give form to our cities
100 years from now.

7. other cities / other visions

8. New York
Architecture Research Office

12. Washington D.C.
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners

16. San Francisco
IwamotoScott Architecture

20. Atlanta

21. hub city

22. 1990 1950
1950 1959
1960 1969
1970 1979
1980 - 1989
pre 1999
sprawl city

23. sprawl city

24. Our lives begin to end
the day we become silent
about things that matter.
Dr. Martin Luther King
centre of the civil rights movement

25. EQUALITY DIVERSITY
INTERDEPENDENCE
RESILIENCE
centre of the civil rights movement
ecological rights movement

26. biomimicry
how ? ?
centre of the ecological rights movement

27. design that imitates orbiomimicry
takes creative inspiration from nature

28. Resourceful and
Opportunistic
Locally attuned and
Responsive
Integrates cyclic
[ Life adapts
and Evolves
Optimizing rather
than Maximizing
Using multi-
processes
functional design
Resilient
Life creates
conditions
conducive to
Life
] Leveraging
Interdependence
Using benign
manufacturing
nature’s deep design principles

29. can we design a city more like a forest?

30. transportation
nodes and neighbourhoods
building ecosystems
water resources
land utilization
building systems
rethinking the building blocks of a city

31. transportation

32. transportation

33. transportation

34. transportation

35. transportation

36. transportation

37. transportation

38. transportation

39. Locally attuned and
Responsive
[ Life adapts
and Evolves
Optimizing rather
than Maximizing
Using multi-
functional design
Resilient
Life creates
conditions
conducive to
Life
] Leveraging
Interdependence
transportation

40. transportation

41. transportation

42. transportation

43. nodes and
neighbourhoods

44. nodes and
neighbourhoods

45. nodes and
neighbourhoods

46. Locally attuned and
Responsive
[ Life adapts
and Evolves
Optimizing rather
than Maximizing
Using multi-
functional design
Resilient
Life creates
conditions
conducive to
Life
] Leveraging
Interdependence
power generation / storage / distribution network
nodes and
neighbourhoods

47. water

48. Degraded Riparian Corridor Restored Riparian Corridor
water

49. Locally attuned and
Responsive
[ Life adapts
and Evolves
Optimizing rather
than Maximizing
Using multi-
functional design
Resilient
Life creates
conditions
conducive to
Life
] Leveraging
Interdependence
harvesting / storage / cleansing / distribution network
water

50. water

51. building systems

52. hydrophilic skin
• captures water from
the air.
• the bio-structure
filters and directs
collected water to the
water network.
photosynthetic
membranes
• sequesters CO2 and
releases O2 to the
atmosphere.
• captures solar
energy for distribution
through the power
network.
building systems

53. carbon-based
bio-structure
cellular transport of
air and water
biofiltration of air
and water
enzymatic
self-assembly
building systems

54. is not a in the future . . .. . .. . .
the city city in a forest
is not a city plus a forest

55. profoundly live
as a forest
it is a city

56. instead of today’s ceaseless traffic. . .

57. instead of today’s burners forcing heat into our buildings. . .

58. instead of today’s fans forcing air into our buildings. . .

59. instead of today’s pumps forcing water into our buildings. . .

60. instead by using the logic of natural systems . . .

61. the city in the future . . .

62. it a quiet sound .
is has the place . of. a forest . . .

63. the city in the future . . .

64. is a humanist city. . .

65. Children are messages we send to the future.
Marshal Mcluhan

66. Our lives begin to end
the day we become silent
about things that matter.
Dr. Martin Luther King
Make it happen.
A modest proposal . . .