"Is Your City Boring? Make It Wild" EcoMetropolitanism Article in Tyee

http://thetyee.ca/Photo/2009/01/19/EcoMet/

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Two BC architects want to transform cities into literal urban jungles.
By Adele Weder
Published: January 19, 2009

Two of Vancouver's smartest young architects have something ferociously ambitious in mind.

Mari Fujita and Matthew Soules of the University of British Columbia School of Architecture have co-created what they call EcoMetropolitanism or EcoMet for short.

It's a conceptual framework for transforming the modern city into a literal urban jungle.

Fujita and Soules recently unveiled their manifesto at a Beijing architectural conference and in the pages of the influential design journal Praxis.

Their proposal is based on seven tenets that run the gamut from buildings that multitask as homes, offices, farms and reefs to facades reshaped with warps, folds and hollows.

(Click on the illustrations accompanying this article to get a sense of how those tenets look and feel.)

The hypothetical result of this schematic approach, say Fujita and Soules, is a future city that's not only ecologically self-contained, but also much more exciting to live in.  ...

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