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It's been way too long, 335 days to be exact. Let's get together. Join Ryan Gravel and Heather Infantry for a live chat from EMEF Studio Gallery on Thursday, December 3 at 4:30 pm. Stop by to say hey (masked of course) or login to Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88000439152) as we reflect on this past year and offer our hopes for the future.

“Over the last 50 years we’ve gotten much better at recognizing the importance of preserving historic buildings, but don’t think as much about preserving the intangible heritage of communities—things like oral traditions, performing arts, and neighborhood rituals. Similarly, we acknowledge that a sustainable future must include green design, but we don’t talk about how honoring the history and cultural relevance of certain places is also key to sustaining communities. It’s time for developers and preservationists to do more than preserve buildings; we must also work to maintain the cultural identity of the places we are redeveloping.”

Redevelopment That Preserves Cultural Heritage — Shelterforce We recognize the importance of preserving historic buildings, but don’t think as much about cultural preservation, the intangible heritage of communities.

Thanks Reporter Newspapers for the coverage on our ideas competition!

Contest entrants imagine a future I-285 with monorails, forests, skate parks and more A ring of urban forest. A 64-mile-long river. The world’s longest zip line or biggest skate park. Monorails and bus lanes. Those were just a few of the 50 ideas for the future of I-285 displa…

Big hugs to all the folks that came out last Friday to celebrate Generator’s new partnership with Google Fiber, toast Ryan’s 20th anniversary of his Atlanta BeltLine thesis and hear the winners of our ideas challenge.

The winners were:

Best for the People -
285 Expansion Plan: Pocket Cities/TOD & MARTA Loop by Travis Bruce;
Best for the Planet -
More Tree Please: 64 Miles of Forested Trails by Judy Yi;
Best Use of Technology -
Project Iris: A high-speed transit and renewable energy parkway by Nicholas Mulkey;
Best Use of Ecology -
The Blue Loop: Off Ramps into Nature by Hannah Palmer;
Best Utopia -
The Zipline by Scarlett Partain (8 years old); and
Best Dystopia -
Multi-Layered I-285 by David Pope.
📸: Adam Komich