I stole the title of this post, but I wanted to show you all a cool article I got from thedirt.asla.org
It's about an eco-district, and I thought since I said how little I actually knew about eco-villages in my previous post I would post this.
This is a plan for our nations capital, Washington D.C. This area in the southwest part of the city is apparently not a place people want to be and with a city of so many communters coming into to work I think it is great that they are revitolizing a section so that people will fight to live in this fast paced political hub. It will promote walkability which from what I hear about D.C. traffic is HUGE! and it will set a national example of how other cities can refresh, and give a complete new and better purpose to an urban space.
http://dirt.asla.org/2012/07/12/southwest-eco-district-plans-finally-unveiled/
I will be looking to know more about the progress of this project in the future and to see if it inspires other rundown parts of cities to make the change.
