Just got a tip that Time Magazine has covered the Long Island Index’s Build a Better Burb contest. This contest offers a $10,000 grand prize for coming up with creative ideas to transform some or all of the 4,341 acres of parking lots on New York’s Long Island into a feature that makes life better on the island.
Maps are a central feature of the Long Island Index’s effort to rethink the island and to transform its urban sprawl into, “a region of vital communities working together to create a vibrant economy with high paying jobs, good education and affordable housing for all – a place where our children can go to school here and choose to live here because the region offers a wide range of choices of creative places to live and good job opportunities.” The effort is also fostered by an aging population with a declining economy as seen in the video below.
The Clock is Ticking on Long Island from Long Island Index on Vimeo.
