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Via Urban Re:Vision: Urban Re:Vision and the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation announced that “Forwarding Dallas” has been selected as the winning design from Re:Vision Dallas, an international design competition. The challenge, to transform a vacant inner-city block behind City Hall into a carbon-neutral community, drew hundreds of entries from top architecture firms and city planners in 14 countries worldwide. “Forwarding Dallas” is the product of a collaboration between Portuguese-based architectural firms Atelier Data and Moov, and will run “off the grid,” acting as a working model of sustainability for cities around the globe. Ground breaking is scheduled for early 2011.

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While the effects of public policies can be widespread, the discussion and understanding of policies are usually not. The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a New York non-profit that works to publicize and educate on important social and city issues and making them accessible to everyone. To do this they have successfully used the power of art and design to partner with schools and communities. One of their ongoing programs is “Making Policy Public” which aims to make information on policy truly public (accessible, meaningful, and shared) by partnering advocates with designers to create pamphlets on a particular issue. The current collaborations explores policy issues such as parks, rights of workers, and affordable housing.