1.02022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow's Research Bloghttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022Marinahttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022/blog/author/admin/<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: </abbr> <!-- .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" /> <blockquote>...<a href="http://www.re-burbia.com/2009/08/05/the-frogs-dream-suburban-eco-water-management/" target="_blank">Calvin Chiu’s <em>Frog’s Dream</em></a>, which proposes to re-establish a sustainable relationship between city and suburbia by transforming foreclosures (’McMansions’) into wetlands and natural water filtration systems for urban centers. The idea maker speaks of a ‘Living Machine’ of eco-water treatment machines, in which a “micro-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.”</blockquote> Chiu 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>.  Hurrah. I was palpitating and flushed when I saw this image.rich