research/teaching _ EXTRAPOLATED CITY

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Extrapolated City exagerates isolated conditions of the existing city in order to create new forms of urbanism, where rivers runs through intersections, bridges start to cross between skyscrapers, lakes appear in the Loop, rooftops become lush gardens, buildings begin to set back, vertical parks grow tall, urban graphics are written into the shoreline, and individual monuments form historical archipelagos.

Brandonb_VisionaryImage copyCredit: Brandon Biederman, UIC Seminar Eisenschmidt (Visionary Cities Project)

Evgeniya copyCredit: Evgeniya Plotnikova, UIC Seminar Eisenschmidt (Visionary Cities Project)

Messner_VCstoryImage copyCredit: Matthew Messner, UIC Seminar Eisenschmidt (Visionary Cities Project)

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Credit: Tao Tao, UIC Seminar Eisenschmidt (Visionary Cities Project)

Terminal Park-vertical park
Credit: Kasia Cimoch, UIC Seminar Eisenschmidt (Visionary Cities Project)

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Credit: Travis Kalina, UIC Seminar Eisenschmidt (Visionary Cities Project)

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Credit: Katherine LaCourt, UIC Seminar Eisenschmidt (Visionary Cities Project) 

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