Design teams from around the world are expected to create powerful visual renderings of truly sustainable cities based explicitly on the Imperatives of the Living Building Challenge 2.0.

The Living City Design Competition requires participants to select an existing city anywhere in the world and conceptually transform it through photo-realistic three-dimensional modeling and renderings.

Leveraging the Living Building Challenge's already substantial impact on the green building industry, the competition is expected to draw contributions from multi-disciplinary teams composed of the world's most talented and daring designers, planners, artists and animators.

The competition is designed to elicit compelling renderings of cities capable of meeting all of the requirements of the Living Building Challenge 2.0.

Successful entries will capture the attention and imagination of a broad audience, while offering technical information capable of standing up to expert scrutiny.

These visualizations will offer a corrective to popular assumptions about an inevitable future filled with high-tech, ecologically dislocated cities.

The winning entry will receive $75,000 and the second prize is $25,000.

Deadline for submissions is February 1, 2011.