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Peter Jay Zweig Gail Peter Borden

City of Refugees

A Real Utopia

Peter Jay Zweig,  Gail Peter Borden

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ORO Applied Research + Design
01 April 2021
Architecture; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Social impact of disasters; Refugees & political asylum
"Where should they go? 70 million displaced refugees and asylum seekers with no passport, no money, and no worldly goods. 

In 380 B.C. Plato wrote about the ""Ideal City,"" but it wasn't until 1516 AD that Sir Thomas More invented the word, ""Utopia,"" translated from Greek as ""good place,"" that is in need of a new, contemporary interpretation. It is within the framework of utopia that the City of Refugees represents a place that transcends the fate of the refugee and the reason they were torn from their homeland and not given safe haven fleeing their country. It is a concept for a new city that welcomes these optimistic people looking for a place to be free from oppression. The City of Refugees is a soft place to land that believes in the future. The University of Houston College of Architecture + Design with 135 students is proposing four cities on four continents as prototypes that represent a real Utopia for housing the unprecedented migration of people moving across borders. This

UN-sponsored, free economic zone for the four cities can be funded by small fractions of the defense budgets appropriated by the UN. The innovative cities create a platform for a new, multi-ethnic society based upon justice, tolerance, and economically viable with a net zero energy consumption within a sustainable environment. The new three-dimensional cities redefine the concept of streets by no longer needing cars creating a real utopia for those with no voice."
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Imprint:   ORO Applied Research + Design
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 203mm, 
Weight:   1.096kg
ISBN:   9781943532841
ISBN 10:   1943532842
Pages:   400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Peter Jay Zweig, FAIA is a principal in the firm Peter Jay Zweig Architects and a professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture + Design. He is an architect, interior designer, educator, exhibition designer and author. The award winning firm has won recognition for 3 international, 26 national, and 16 regional architectural awards. In addition he has received 80 domestic and international patents for building system innovations. Gail Peter Borden, FAIA is principal of the architecture office Borden Partnership and Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston. His numerous awards include: the Architectural League Prize; an artist-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony; a Graham Foundation Grant; the Borchard Fellowship; and books including: Material Precedent, Matter, Principia, Process, Lineament, and New Essentialism.

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