City in the Forest

National and international teams were given just one week to formulate design strategies and three hours on the day of the public jury to assemble presentation models and drawings. Teams were asked to envision their respective cities: Atlanta, San Francisco and Washington DC in the year 2108, one hundred years in the future. The Atlanta Team’s design for the History Channel’s City of the Future: Design and Engineering Competition focused on Atlanta’s present and future water and transportation crises. Positing a substantially larger future Atlanta metropolitan area, the restoration of the region’s Natural Stream Systems and the eventual reintroduction of the Piedmont Forest Ecosystem to the urban city become central to the new sustainable Atlanta.  Substantial development takes place over present-day auto transportation corridors which are retrofitted with various transit alternatives. The Atlanta Team of PRAXIS3, EDAW, BNIM, Metcalf, and Eddy won the History Channel competition for Atlanta and later the overall National Award.

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