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Framing Atlanta’s BeltLine as a font for gentrification

Archinect

The BeltLine has become a prime example of what urban scholars call “green gentrification” – a process in which restoring degraded urban areas by adding green features drives up housing prices and pushes out working-class residents. New leadership is attempting to address the issue through inclusionary zoning.

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Mississippi Civic: 6 Cultural Buildings in the Magnolia State

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The project involved restoring or recreating dozens of late 19th-century materials and required a complex life safety strategy to ensure all buildings worked together seamlessly. The entire structure required new building systems, and additional performance systems were added to the theatre and event spaces.

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Barcelona’s Best: Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue’s Poetics of Place

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Santa Caterina Market By Miralles Tagliabue EMBT , Barcelona, Spain Located in Ciutat Vella, one of the oldest quarters of Barcelona, the historic Santa Caterina Market was restored by Miralles Tagliabue EMBT , who won the competition in 2005.

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Bayou Buildings: 8 Cases of Architectural Ingenuity Beyond the Banks

Architizer

The ravine restoration earned certification as a Wildlife Habitat. Biologists and site ecologists were consulted to assess flora and fauna in three zones, leading to the selection of a building zone with the least sensitive ecosystem, open water access and suitable elevation for disaster protection.

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Design Institute of Australia highlights nine award-winning student projects

Deezen

The programme has been mentoring students since 2005 and is instrumental in providing tertiary institutions and design graduates with vital, real-life feedback from experienced designers and industry figures. "In The restoration in Perth promotes social interaction through intimate design, prioritising sustainability."

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Climate Chaos Is Killing a Historic Urban Forest

Landscape Architecture Magazine

The guild first worked with Andropogon 25 years ago, when two of Andropogon’s founders, Carol Franklin and Leslie Sauer, led a restoration plan for Olmsted Woods with civil engineers at Cahill Associates, after an ecological assessment of the site in 1997 by Biohabitats urged immediate action to protect it. and Meliora Design.

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Stewarding Change in a Time of Fire

Landscape Architecture Magazine

These landscapes are the focus of our work, and we locate most of them in two general realms: (1) dedicated land reserves (like national parks, forestry reserves, extraction zones, and wildlands) as well as other forms of undeveloped or minimally developed land, and (2) the diverse realm of the wildland–urban interface (WUI). Kane et al.,