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GIVEAWAY: Reverse Effect by Jeanne Gang
December 8, 2011
Crisis becomes catalyst in Reverse Effect: Renewing Chicago’s Waterways, a new book by Jeanne Gang that weaves together diverse content and voices to explore how the complex challenges facing Chicago’s current waterway system can generate the revolutionary rebirth of its riverfront.
Studio Gang has generously sent over 2 signed copies for us to give away. Click through to learn how to snag one!
A crit at Gang’s Spring 2011 studio at the Harvard GSD.
The result of a yearlong collaboration between Studio Gang, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and students from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Reverse Effect was prompted by NRDC’s 2010 report calling for a barrier in the Chicago River’s South Branch to separate the Great Lakes and Mississippi Watersheds and thereby prevent invasive carp from entering Lake Michigan. Investigating how dividing the river could also connect and recharge surrounding neighborhoods led Studio Gang to discover exciting new possibilities for the city they call home.
Reverse Effect is meant to become a tool that can empower a new generation of Chicagoans—from architects and designers to policymakers, advocates, and everyday citizens—to reimagine and reshape the river’s future together, as well as a road map for the nation’s broader river renaissance.
An essay on the barrier, Asian carp, and related water issues from the NRDC, accompanied by original pen and ink illustrations.
40 pages are devoted to projects building out the urban potential of a barrier in the Chicago River as imagine by Gang’s GSD students.
The book is now available for purchase online or at select bookstores, but we have 2 signed copies to give away. For your chance to win, e-mail info@architizer.com with your name, address, and the subject line: Reverse Effect, and we will choose two names at random to take home the prize!
[Images and text courtesy of Studio Gang Architects]
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