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Architecture Collaborations: What are Public-Private-Partnerships?

ArchDaily

In the context of architecture and urban development, PPPs are increasingly being used to address the complex needs of growing cities, helping to finance, build, and maintain critical projects that would be difficult for either sector to accomplish alone. Read more »

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Full funding secured for US tallest skyscraper says developer

Deezen

The entire project is financed, including the tower — if the tower gets approved." The building will house hotels, residences and commercial space. The downtown is ripe for urban development. And then we will get a building permit in September. It's the right place at the right time."

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Places in Time III

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

If I were doing that roundup now, having had more time to delve into the new book, I would write that politics and finance were, if not the most prevalent, the most illuminating and thoroughly discussed aspects in the book's presentation of skyscrapers over fifty years last century. Louis and Paris/Indonesia/Flanders.

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Jinling East Road Area Urban regeneration project by Benoy

aasarchitecture

Cities change every day, and urban renewal is a constantly ongoing process. Faced with increasing land resource shortages for urban development, first-tier world-class cities such as Shanghai (ranked Alpha+ according to GaWC 2018) face an urgent need to switch from ‘incremental expansion’ to ‘tapping of reserves’.

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University of Arkansas Community Design Center Proposes Downtown Housing Regeneration Scheme

Architizer

The material palette of light-frame wood construction with cladding options of wood siding and cementitious panels reflects the standard for non-commercial grade affordable residential construction. This is especially important for small-and-mid-sized cities who want to exercise greater oversight in securing high-quality urban development.

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White House announces new guidebook to funding office conversions nationwide

Archinect

The Biden Administration has announced a new initiative aimed at financing office conversions in an effort to combat the growing problem of high vacancy rates and housing affordability in markets large and small across the country. The White House press release says: “Converting commercial real estate to housing a.

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Ugly Should Be Allowed

A Better Built Environment

The city is decentralized with walkable neighborhoods and commercial areas close to housing, parks, schools, and other amenities. Worse, in many cases it prevents new housing from being built at all, as the cost of development outpaces the rents people can afford to pay. The density of housing supports a diversity of small businesses.