Daylighting to Improve the City and the Environment - Blue Living Ideas

Daylighting to Improve the City and the Environment

Posted on Mar 18, 2010 by Zachary Shahan.

Streams and rivers can be central attractions of a city. They can be beautiful, vibrant public places where people can enjoy the company of others while also enjoying the peace and calm of nature. They can also provide peaceful and aesthetically pleasing transportation corridors for bicyclists, roller-bladers, skateboarders, pedestrians and others.

For these reasons, daylighting is becoming an increasingly popular tool among urban planners and landscape architects.
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Emergency Water Purifier for Flood Conditions

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Jerry James Stone.

For this year’s Aspen Design Challenge — which had the theme Designing Water’s Future — Umea Institute of Design student Ceren Bagatar proposed the following concept: a Rescue Bottle.
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