"New York is the most innocent town in the world. It looks as if it were made of children’s building blocks, and the shops have a naive glamour that I remember from the Roaring Twenties."

Joseph Beuys, on his first visit to the United States at the age of 53. The other two cities visited for his 1974 “Energy Plan for the Western Man”: Chicago and Minneapolis.

Exelon is working with SunPower to put a solar photovoltaic plant on an old brownfield site on Chicago’s South Side. The 10-megawatt plant will have 32,000 solar panels and should be able to power between 1,200 and 1,500 homes.

“The Future of Electric Power” in Businessweek. (via smartercities)