WPA 2.0 poses this question: What’s in store for the city if design takes back the streets? The limits of pure utility dissolve to reveal infrastructure’s greater powers. WPA 2.0 is not a sci-fi fantasy, and it's not the Long Island Expressway. Show us what it looks like. Tell us how it works. Designers of all fields are eligible to submit for this competition, which is staged in two phases. Multi-disciplinary teams are particularly encouraged, in the belief that design invention comes from more integrated approaches to problem-solving—whether by applying new thinking to old problems, or old thinking to new ones—to yield visionary hybrid forms and relationships. Awards: $5,000 to as many as six finalists to continue to develop their proposals. Fully-developed, second phase proposals will be presented on Monday, November 16, 2009 at the National Building Museum to an audience of policymakers, practitioners, critics and scholars.

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