Dezeen promotion: architects, designers and multidisciplinary teams can now enter Eleven Magazine's latest ideas competition, which aims to reimagine the Tenderloin area of San Francisco as the "neighbourhood of the future".
Tenderloin ? an area in downtown San Francisco, California ? is currently considered one of the city's most unsafe neighbourhoods.
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Following the success of last year's challenge in Cambodia, Eleven Magazine has launched a competition for ideas to transform the area into a "model-district" that businesses and people could relocate to.
"In the city's Bay Area, we are witnessing a new paradigm shift which is bound to impact the way we think of urbanism in the future", said Eleven editor Andrea Verenini. "There is a sense that a new urban revolution ? or perhaps evolution ? is simmering and we wish to capture this excitement with our new international competition." "The Tenderloin is an area of huge untapped potential waiting to be discovered," added Verenini. "But, the question remains: how do you solve a problem like San Francisco's Tenderloin""
With companies like Google developing new neighbourhoods just a few miles from the area, the competition asks entrants to submit similar design-led ideas on how this district can be transformed.

Submissions should be in the form of two A1 sheets with an accompanying text document explaining the design. Models ar...