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Reinvestment without displacement: North Avenue Market

Community Architect Daily

(Source: Frank Lucas/Mike Shecter 2012) Some cornerstones of the arts district hung on: The former Load of Fun conversion to a center for non-profits and performance, the conversions of the Center Theater into the Impact Hub survive and a recent addition, Jubilee's revival of a former dance night club into an educational hub.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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While this represents progress, both gender and racial inequality and discrimination remains widespread in the architecture industry , from student bodies and educational institutions right through to professional organizations and the workplace as a whole. Born and educated in Tokyo, Yoko Fujii is a graduate of Japan Women’s University.

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Should I be an Architect? | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Deciding to write this blog has in many ways become a watershed moment for me in my career. Get yourself an architectural blog and that number will grow to 10 Million times. But it’s really nice to read all these blogs about architecture and architects. and What are you actually good at doing? Something so beautiful.

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140+ Software Tools for Architecture Firms [2020 Update]

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Outplanr is a tool used to keep projects on track , and it gives detailed information on the time spent on it against the own estimates. This tool is very powerful when it comes down to calculating single architectural project costs and adjusting estimates for the future. The company offers discounts for students and educators.

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Building Science, Climate Change and The Pretty Good House (Transcript)

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It’s one of the things that kind of works against the sort of climate change education movement is the data is really hard to pin down. It’s a very complicated topic, but the estimates for the contribution of the construction or the built environment are anywhere from 20 to 50 percent, most of them on the higher end.

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Why after 20 years EBDI is still no success story

Community Architect Daily

Success or failure I asked in a 2015 blog article about EBDI and in the end had no definite answer. The total redevelopment was estimated to cost near $2billion (2003). The education component alone is so complex that it yielded its own book titled " Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore ". million in contracts.