What Should Be Done With Flatiron Park Downtown? We say a beautiful community garden.

“What is a city with no inputs and no outputs, the city where all of its waste, all of its food, all of its water, all of its energy is produced and recycled and up-cycled within its own political boundaries?” Tuesday night at Granby Theater: Dr. Mitchell Joachim, one of the “100 people who are changing America.”

Anticipated subjects for this year include architecture, design objects, the culture of China, and the joint entry by Hampton University and ODU for the next Solar Decathlon to be held in 2011 on the National Mall in DC.

Flatiron Park sits in a place where people live, work, and play all day long. It is not a just-add-mixed-use contrivance of planning. It is the real deal, and its potential to contribute to the sum of the parts of its place is enormous.