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Navigating 2024: European Cities Tackle Urban Cooling, Congestion, and Connection

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via Shutterstock | Alexandre.ROSA | Rotterdam As we begin 2024, European cities present various urban development markers that are setting the path for the new year. In these diverse urban fabrics, European cities are demonstrating a commitment to defining challenges and working towards shaping a climate-conscious future.

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New York, Milan, and Venice Amongst Participants in C40's Reinventing Cities Competition 2024

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Courtesy of c40 | Venice Proposed Site 2024 “Reinventing Cities,” C40’ s renowned global design competition , has just announced its fourth edition. The competition’s main goal is to “transform underutilized sites or buildings into beacons of sustainability and resilience and act as a showcase for future zero-carbon urban developments.

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Rowan Moore on how Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo plans to use the 2024 Olympics as the catalyst for a greener ‘City of Lights’

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” The Guardian critic also reversed his colleague Oliver Wainright’s praise of the ‘15-minute city’ concept developed by Hidalgo’s advisor Carlos Moreno, which he sees as “overhyped” and “a bit vapid.

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Discover the Venues of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States

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Image © 4kclips via Shutterstock As the Paris 2024 Olympics draw to a close, the city has showcased a new model for hosting the iconic Games by integrating its landmarks and urban spaces into the event. Officially the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad, LA28 is scheduled to take place from July 14–30, 2028. Read more »

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Maldives reveals "world's first true floating island city" to cope with rising sea levels

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The Maldives has partnered with architecture studio Waterstudio to create a brain-shaped floating city that will house 20,000 people in a lagoon near the country's capital. Called Maldives Floating City , the development will contain 5,000 low-rise floating homes floating within a 200-hectare lagoon in the Indian Ocean.

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"The era of mega-cities should be over" says Helle Søholt

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Mega-projects such as The Line should be avoided in favour of improving urban design within existing cities, Gehl Architects CEO Helle Søholt says in this interview. In general, I think the era of the mega-cities should be over," she said of The Line, a 170-kilometre linear city being constructed in the Saudi Arabian desert. "In

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News: ACSA and Buell Center select 2024 winners of Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society

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The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) have announced jointly their selection of the 2024 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society.

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