“Calling all future-forward architects, urban designers, renegade planners and imaginative engineers:
Show us how you would re-invent the suburbs! What would a McMansion become if it weren’t a single-family dwelling? How could a vacant big box store be retrofitted for agriculture? What sort of design solutions can you come up with to facilitate car-free mobility, ‘burb-grown food, and local, renewable energy generation? We want to see how you’d design future-proof spaces and systems using the suburban structures of the present, from small-scale retrofits to large-scale restoration—the wilder the better!”

“The new Sunlight Labs transparency corps invites users to log in and join the effort to analyze this information collaboratively. Users are presented with the PDFs and prompted to read them carefully and then enter the pertinent information–the date and dollar amount of a request, name of the requester, description of the project, and so on–into fields on the screen. These then become part of a searchable database.”