Over the last few weeks Re: Vision Dallas has been a hot topic in the world of sustainability.  We’ve been featured in some of the most popular and influential blogs, media portals and news services.  The following is a list of some of our favorite hits.  Stay tuned as we aren’t done yet.

• Inhabitat takes a closer look at honorable mention receiver The Co-Op
• Konstructr’s Vik Duggal interviews John Greenan
• Cameron Sinclair of Huffington Post discusses the greening of George Bush’s backyard
• Treehugger’s Jesse Fox discusses the Re: Vision Dallas winners
• Cliff Kuang and Fast Company explore the 3 ideas behind the winning entries
• Dwell gives you their take on the winners
• Build Baby Build
• NBC Dallas Fort Worth Slide Show
• Sustainable Cities Collective
• Archicentral:
• Texas Sustainability
• Sky Studios
• Solve Climate
• Landscape Urbanism
• Otto
• Larry James’ Urban Daily
• Larry James’ Everyday Citizen
• LEED Loop
• Creative Loafing Sarasota
• Architecture Competitions
• Green Building and Enviro Trends
• Jetson Green

Urban Re:Vision’s Re: Vision Dallas design competition is currently being featured on Treehugger, an online information hub dedicated to bringing sustainability to the mainstream.   Jesse Fox, writing in the “Design & Architecture” section, showcases the 3 winners of the competition and hints that similar areas in Dallas may be next for a revision of their own.  Thanks Jesse and Treehugger for helping us spread the word about Dallas’s sustainable urban block!

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Jesse Fox’s Blog

Courtesy Treehugger writer Jesse Fox, we bring this interview with Stacey Frost of Urban Re:Vision.

“A block is to the city as a cell is to the human body.”

Stacey Frost is an interesting woman, to say the least. When this former cattle rancher, neuropsychologist and options trader decided to focus on renovating historical buildings, she became acutely aware of the need for greater sustainability in the urban environment.

The result was Urban Re:Vision, a two-year, six-part international design competition to stimulate innovative thinking about the components of a sustainable city. After collecting hundreds of original ideas, Frost set out to make her vision a reality.

Last month, a design charrette was held in Dallas, where Urban Re:Vision is leading the creation of a fully sustainable city block, complete with on-site energy, food production and affordable micro-lofts.

TreeHugger: Urban Re:Vision had a big year in 2008, holding the last of six international competitions to redefine the way we build our cities. What were your goals in holding these competitions and what has been accomplished through them?

Stacey Frost: Our goal for the series of competitions was to gather as many ideas as possible, looking at all aspects of sustainable development. We wanted to allow people to share and collaborate on these ideas with the hopes that some of them will become a reality, inspire innovation, and set an example of what the future holds.

Through each of our competitions, we were often surprised at the caliber and approach that entries took – and that for each competition a theme emerged that was unexpected. We have gathered hundreds of inspirational, and realistic, approaches to creating a new way of building sustainably.

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By Jesse Fox

Could the first fully sustainable city block in America rise out of a nondescript parking lot in downtown Dallas, Texas?

After a full year of design competitions aimed at stimulating discussion about the nature of sustainability in cities, San Francisco-based Urban Re:Vision is about to transform theory into reality in Dallas. The land is available, the city is on board and there appear to be no serious obstacles to the development of a city block that would radically redefine sustainability in the urban context.

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Over the past year, Urban Re:Vision held a series of design competitions, which addressed issues from transportation and materials to energy and economy in the city block. Here are some of the results of the Re:Construct competition, announced in September at West Coast Green.

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