Investors were initially impressed by the life sciences concept, including the innovative biotechnology.
And the pickup has proved to be an exceptionally elastic concept, including everything from street-hugging low-riders to open-deck Humvees.
"Hopscotch" is the brainchild of the opera director Yuval Sharon; more than two hundred people joined him in realizing the concept, including six principal composers and six librettists.
But the urban farm concept — including an abundance of fresh produce and a genuine harvesting plan — was apparently just too darn offbeat to pass up.
They came up with the basic concept, including butterfly doors that swing open so that Mr. Smith can enter and exit the car in debonair style.
It was designed as a drive by wire system to exploit the high degree of technology that we were demonstrating in the concept including Hyundai's 3rd Generation FCEV Fuel Cell Electric Vehiclee).
In addition to the economists working on the proposal, some heavyweights support the concept, including the Nobel laureate Edmund S. Phelps, Dani Rodrik of Harvard and former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich.
Much of his political life was devoted to that idealistic concept, including membership of the Council of Europe and a brief spell in the European parliament before it became a directly elected body.
Mr. Bucknum said the public's suggestions would go into the final design, but several features are part of the preliminary concept, including ultraviolet lights to destroy germs and to act as "lanterns" to attract patrons.
Mr. Johnson said the next steps for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, also known as SOM, would be to get other groups involved to work on the details of the concept, including construction methods.
But a few embraced the concept, including Timothy F. Geithner, then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who on several occasions pressed colleagues to clarify apparent inconsistencies in their positions.
