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AKICHIATLAS is a bilingual and most comprehensive design portal that covers architecture competitions all over the world. Furthermore, they support designers by offering free space to display winning entries. You'll find all the key info: what competitions are being held at the moment, whether you are eligible, or interesting projects. In Japanese "akichi" means "vacant lot."

New Partner Autodesk Design Center will be the venue for the 2008 Spark Winners Exhibition, October in San Francisco.

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Index
Adapt this! Human centered design: http://adaptiveenvironments.org/
Akichatlas reports on great design competitions around the world. Enter them all!
American Institute of Architects' Center for Livable Communities: www.aia.org/gov/livable
American Planning Association: www.planning.org
Ann Arbor Film Festival: http://www.aafilmfest.org/
Armin Vit's witty blog: http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/
ARE Forum--voice of the architecture profession: http://www.areforum.org/
Archeworks-Alternative architecture and design: www.archeworks.org
Archinect: www.archinect.com  
ArchNewsNow--Kristen Richards' work of the art: www.archnewsnow.com
Architecture and design for communities in http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/
Architecture via Venice: http://www.architecture.it/
Architecture Magazine: www.architecturemag.com
Architect's Newspaper: http://www.archpaper.com/
Architosh by Gosh- Mac-based architects: www.architosh.com
Archvoices--young professionals improving architecture: http://archvoices.org/
Art deadlines for competitions & events: www.artdeadlines.com
Association of Women Industrial Designers: http://www.awidweb.com/
Arcosanti: www.arcosanti.org
Bruce Mau Changes the World: www.institutewithoutboundaries.com
Builder's Book Source--George's gorgeous contribution to knowledge: http://www.buildersbooksource.com
Bucky's back-- kinda: http://bfi.org/
California Futures Network:  www.calfutures.org
Car Design News: http://www.cardesignnews.com/
Center for Livable Communities: www.lgc.org/center
Center for Neighborhood Technology: www.cnt.org
Center for Transportation Excellence: www.cfte.org
Citystreets--transpo for smart cities: http://citystreets.org/
Clean Tech: www.cleanedge.com
Congress for New Urbanism: www.cnu.org
Contagious=revolutionary marketing strategies: http://www.contagiousmagazine.com/
Core77-- home base for product design: http://www.core77.com/
Creative resource: http://www.creativepro.com/company/home/2.html
Create Magazine-- national mag, local content: http://www.createmagazine.com/index.cfm
Curve--Australian product design pub: http://www.curve.com.au/
Death By Architecture: Mario Cipresso's great resource-treasure chest of design competitions--gotta love em! http://www.deathbyarchitecture.com
Design360 Magazine, covering the design world from Guangzhou, China--good friends and great people: http://www.sandu360.com/design360/showclass_en.asp
DesignAddict--links directory: http://www.designaddict.com/
Design goes boom! www.designboom.com
Design Directory-http://directory.designer.am/index.php
Designing universally: www.designfor21st.org
Designation-- multi-racial design conference: http://www.designation.net/
Design Issues--on cultural context: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=3EAC0DA9-E7D8-4E24-B9BB-336097D486E6&ttype=4&tid=19
Design Intel: http://www.di.net/
Design Inst. of New Zealand: http://www.dinz.org.nz/main/index.html
Design Management Institute: www.dmi.org
Designophy--a worldwide perspective on I.D. --from Istanbul: http://www.designophy.com/
Design observed, by Bierut, Helfund, Drenttel, et al: http://www.designobserver.com
Design schools directory: http://www.designschools.com/
Design Within Reach, purveyor of fine design-- www.dwr.com
Dexigner's beautiful portal & effective resource: http://www.dexigner.com
DI-- the Design Institute and famous educator Janet Abrams: http://design.umn.edu/
Dwell Magazine, famed sponsor of SPARK! www.dwellmag.com
EcoMarket International-- green products and services: www.ecomarket.net
EDRA--people, their built and natural surroundings: http://edra.org/index.shtml
Environmental Building News: www.ebuild.com
European Union Strategy for Sustainable Development: www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/eussd
Framer's intentions: www.framemag.com
Funders' Network for Smart Growth: www.fundersnetwork.org
Gizmag's got it all--we love the place: www.gizmag.com/home/
George Nelson Archives: www.georgenelson.org
Green Building Information Council-- www.greenbuilding.ca
Green Design Network-- Design and build a sustainable future: www.greendesign.net
Green Design Education Initiative: www.idec.org/greendesign/home.html
Green-map eco-cultural movement: www.greenmap.org
Growth Management Leadership Alliance: www.gmla.org
Harvard arch resource: http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/lab_arch/arch_profiles.html#predock
Helping Green Businesses: www.sustainablebusiness.com/
Iaccoco's E-bikes: www.evglobal.com/index2.html
I.D. Magazine: http://www.idonline.com/
IDSA Environmental Responsibility Section: www.idsa.org/whatsnew/sections/ecosection
InsideArch--a view into the profession: http://www.insidearch.org
Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis: http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/
International Directory of Design: http://www.penrose-press.com/
Intersect this! www.intersectionmagazine.com
Inventables--new materials and technologies: http://www.inventables.com/
John E. Johnson's Excellent Honda Hybrid site: http://www.insightman.com/
John Thackera's big show in Holland-Doors of Perception: www.doorsofperception.com
Karin Eriksson's like a design sponge--really!  http://designsponge.blogspot.com/
Metacool--thoughts on the art & science of bringing cool stuff to life, by Diego Rodriguez: www.metacool.typepad.com
Metropolis Magazine and their great editor Susan Szenasy : www.metropolis.com
Metropolitan Transportation Commission (SF): www.mtc.ca.gov
Moggridge's grand new book and companion website: www.designinginteractions.com
MoMa, the great-- www.moma.org and www.momastore.org
Monocle-- Tyler Brûlé's new mag on design, politics, travel and style: www.monocle.com
Move this! Mark Charmer & chums take on Alt-trans in UK and CA. Check them out at www.movementdesign.org
New Jersey Future: www.njfuture.org
New York State Environmental Building Association: www.eba-nys.org
New Urbanism: www.newurbanism.org
Outlet: Peter Zellner's discourse on architecture and urbanism in L.A.: http://www.outlet4arch.org/
Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, where RFK Jr and his minions man the barricades: www.pace.edu/lawschool/envclinic
Partners for Livable Communities: www.livable.com
Photoshop pioneer: http://www.russellbrown.com/
Places Journal, UC Berkeley's forum for environmental design: http://www.places-journal.org
Public- Architecture-in service of the public: http://www.publicarchitecture.org/
PXL This! Film Fest: http://www.pxl2000.com/
Railvolution: www.railvolution.com
Redefining Progress: www.rprogress.org
Regional Plan Association (NY): www.rpa.org
Regional Transportation Denver: www.rtd-denver.com
Resource Renewal Institute: www.rri.org
Resources for the Future: www.rff.org
Rita Sue Siegel jobs: http://www.ritasuesiegelresources.com/
Rocky Mountain Institute: www.rmi.org
Roz Goldfarb=jobs: http://www.rga-joblink.com/docs/home.html
Russell Wright shrine: http://www.russelwrightcenter.org/rwmanitoga.html
Seg This! www.segwaychat.com
Segway Home Page: www.segway.com
Smart Growth Network: www.smartgrowth.org
Sustainable business resource: http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/
Sustainable Communities Network: www.sustainable.org
Sustainable Resources Conference: www.sustainableresources.org/sr2004/index.html
Taxi Design-- definitive omnibus resource: http://www.designtaxi.com/
Transit for Livable Communities: www.tlcminnesota.org
Treehugger--excellent wide-ranging blog-community: www.treehugger.com/
Tyler Brûlé, Founder of Wallpaper & FT Columnist has a new blog: http://www.winkorp.com
Washington Regional Network for Livable Communities: www.washingtonregion.net
WestStart-CALSTART is dedicated to supporting and accelerating the growth of the advanced transportation: www.weststart.org
World changers: http://www.worldchanging.com/

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