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Meet Prospect Shore! City Envisions How to Deal With the Worst
The Bloomberg administration today announced a rather grim, yet probably necessary competition: design the sort of temporary housing New Yorkers would need following a catastrophe. The competition asks contestants to imagine a fictitious neighborhood called Prospect Shore that's just been hit by a Category 3 hurricane, leaving 38,000 families homeless.
The competition's sponsored by the the city's Office of Emergency Management, the Rockefeller Foundation and Architecture for Humanity; and the top 10 winners get $10,000 each to further pursue their projects.
More on the competition--called, ominously, "What If New York City..."--here and after the jump. read more »
