Beautiful Urban Project for Chicago: String Theory « by Department of Unusual Certainties

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"Chicago’s Empty Necklace

At the end of the 19th century plans were made to connect 7 major parks in Chicago with a network of 26 miles of boulevards. The boulevards and parks would wrap around the city creating a so-called Emerald Necklace. The plan was largely successful and is still visible from satellite photos today. But while the waterfront parkland and the parks along the necklace have been heavily invested in and used, the boulevards remain for the most part empty - 26 miles of uninterrupted empty.

In January 2011 Mas Studio announce a new competition that challenges designers to re-evaluate the Emerald Necklace and the boulevard system. In all likelihood the competition is to be flooded with proposals for continuous urban agriculture, looped tramlines, landscape urbanism post-city deconstructions, and renewable energy farms. DoUC also throw their hat in the ring...."

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