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Terreform Receives Award for UR (Urban Research)

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Terreform has received a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts so that it can continue its publication series (URpub.org). This will support our initiative to disseminate speculative research,  designs and analyses that focus on a progressive urbanism.

See their announcement printed in Arch Daily: Graham Foundation Announces $419,000 in 2016 Grants to Organizations.

Also check out our grantees project page at Graham Foundation: UR (Urban Research), Volumes 07-11.

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Keeping the Lucas Museum in Chicago

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As Terreform launches a new large-scale study of the South Side in Chicago, Michael Sorkin writes a letter to George Lucas and Mellody Hobson asking them to keep the Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts within the city. He points out an alternative site for the museum, one that would no longer take up park land but utilize the northern portion of a U.S. Steel site.

Read more here: Michael Sorkin urges Lucas Museum to stay in Chicago and revitalize the city’s South Side  (Architect's Newspaper)
And here: Architect Asks Lucas to Reconsider Museum for Chicago, Suggests U.S. Steel Site (Curbed Chicago)

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Proposing a Subway Freight System for NYC

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Makoto Okazaki, partner and principal architect at Michael Sorkin Studio, consulting on Terreform's New York City [Steady] State project, spoke at Urban Design Forum about a new form of mobility for the city. Makoto's proposal for a "Subway Freight System for NYC" introduced the idea of adapting the subway system to move goods. The subway could be used late at night to transfer items to distribution hubs and then in the early morning to move freight to shops throughout the city. He took this a step further, claiming that this would free up space above ground for pedestrians, recreation, and even urban farming. 

Read more about Urban Design Forum's "Onward: New Ideas for Urban Freight" panel.