I just finished writing about one City of the Future: Atlanta competitor, HollwichKushner , and now I’m about to write about another at TEDx Atlanta! Ellen Dunham-Jones led the team from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and talks in the above video about the ideas behind her brilliant book ‘Retrofitting Suburbia‘.

I’ve had the wonderful privilege of watching Ellen give this talk before about the concept, but in a bit more detail than 20 minutes will provide. Although, considering the time allotted, I thought she got out a lot of great data outlining the reasons why as well as a few examples of other places where this has been a successful endeavor making the …

So this is one of the best things I’ve seen of 2008. A couple of architects in the HOK Atlanta office, Scott Fleming and David Nilsson made a video a couple years ago and just decided to show it two me a few days ago. The gaul!! These guys were totally holding back on me, but kudos for this unbelivable spoof of the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage video.

Here is the description Scott gave of the whole purpose;

“After years of boring power point presentations at our company retreats we decided to do something a bit more creative. The presentations were supposed to be informative and discuss what was going on in the studio. The following video tracks my struggles to get …

Its a cool autumn morning here in Atlanta. The leaves as you can see are in full color. Also below is this morning’s breakfast. Grits and sausage courtesy of Riverview farms in Ranger, Ga.