{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"2022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow&#039;s Research Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022","author_name":"Marina","author_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/author\/admin\/","title":"Foreclosures Become Nature","html":"<abbr>I just came upon <a href=\"http:\/\/popupcity.net\/2009\/08\/foreclosures-become-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> - amazing proposition -- looking for post industrial (and post-slurb) utopianizers:\r\n<\/abbr>\r\n\r\n<!-- .entry-meta --><img title=\"The Frog Dream\" src=\"http:\/\/popupcity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/The-Frog-Dream.jpg\" alt=\"The Frog Dream\" width=\"448\" height=\"231\" \/>\r\n<blockquote>...<a href=\"http:\/\/www.re-burbia.com\/2009\/08\/05\/the-frogs-dream-suburban-eco-water-management\/\" target=\"_blank\">Calvin Chiu\u2019s <em>Frog\u2019s Dream<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0which proposes\u00a0to re-establish a sustainable relationship between city and suburbia by transforming foreclosures (\u2019McMansions\u2019)\u00a0into wetlands and natural water filtration systems for urban centers. The idea maker speaks of a \u2018Living Machine\u2019 of eco-water treatment machines, in which a \u201cmicro-ecosystem of plants, algae, bacteria, fish and clams are present to purify the water. A micro-wetland ecosystem will be formed around these mansions to sustain larger wetland animals and plants.\u201d<\/blockquote>\r\nChiu won the Grand Prize of the competition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.re-burbia.com\/2009\/08\/05\/the-frogs-dream-suburban-eco-water-management\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reburbia<\/a>.\u00a0 Hurrah. I was palpitating and flushed when I saw this image.","type":"rich"}