Everyville is a new exurban community that has emerged around the intersection of Avenue Z and X Street, just to the Southwest of the intersection of Highway 1 and the Beltway around Megalopolis, about 20 kilometers from the city’s core. Making good use of the flat, featureless terrain that used to support dairy farming, developers have carved the plains here into several subdivisions that by now house over 20,000 inhabitants. Analysts expect that the whole 25-square kilometer area that used to be the historic Big A and Small B farms can eventually support as many as 50,000 inhabitants and perhaps even more.

Recently, Everyville set out a Request for Proposals in which architects are asked to suggest how they might create an image, a coherence, a character and a civic sense for this small town, appropriate to its location and to its history, its site and its future. The proposal can be idiosyncratic. It may even be utopian. It should certainly be an evocation of a real place of community where there is right now none and that may be again just a series of fragments in sprawl a decade from, it should be an Everyville of the imagination and of memory, of hope and of fear.

The proposal must take the form of a series of drawings that will allow citizens to see what Everyville will look like in ten years, and how that community will make sense through the medium of architecture. The deadline for the submission is July 15, 2008. Visit the site to learn more.