At a community meeting focused on the redevelopment of Sandy Springs, GA, David Dixon affirmed, “You picked the right time if you want to create a downtown. This is probably [the best] time since the Great Depression.” In Metropolis, Nina Rappaport discussed the inspiration behind her “Vertical Urban Factory” exhibit (pictured above), explaining “Industry can now also be ecological–an urban industrial symbiosis where one company’s waste become the others energy source; where one company’s scrap metal is repurposed by another. This symbiosis has not been tried in cities, so opportunities abound.” Moshe Safdie spoke to Vanity Fair about ‘starchitecture’ and opined, “I don’t think I have a signature style that announces, ‘This is a Safdie.’ But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings. You know?”