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Beuinpa Taro, Jose Luis VaLLejo,
Constantino Hurrapo, ELENA Prirto
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cosistema Urbano proposes a lange scale reconfiguration of
Philadelphia, employing satis drive by ecological planing
and informed by ctizen action, Responding to che community
input ellected from Philadelphia LANDisions, Ecostema’
now multi-story ‘structure act as. programmatic. catalyss
for the neighborhood and offer communiey space for social
and educational activites. In each targe neighboshood, these
nodes house renewable energy adaptors that can be capped for
supporting urban agriculcueand producing theatrical evens of
simply r-channeling dhe energy back inc the power grid. New
“Ecologial Cordon wl ink the neighborhoods catalyss to
center iy creating new environmentally sensitive aneporaion
lines a well _dediated “gren’
LEE commercial zones. Feosinema
sees the catalysts acting as a ‘elf-
EEE panation of the urban tissue,
which would be dismanded when
TEE nolonger nee+ “The neib Philadelphia
will be built over itself by
its citizens.”