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Encouraging the Use of Native Planting in Commercial Landscaping

Architecture Ideas

Native plants bring many benefits to commercial landscaping and yet, in southern and southwestern states of the US, increasing building development has resulted in them struggling to survive. . As well as growing well, native plants can improve ecosystems and help to develop greater biodiversity. . Source: townnews.com.

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Urban Terrarium: Only Architect-Landscape Architect Collaboration Can Truly Delivery Biodiversity

Architizer

It also casts in sharp relief a historic oversight on the part of everyone involved in urban development and the built environment. After this, despite complexity of the new environment, it will essentially self-regulate because it is correctly balanced. Just as the world has been since the beginning of the Holocene.

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The New Urbanism: Re-imagining Urban Design

Santa Cruz Architect

This article explores the background, defining elements, terminology, organizations promoting the New Urbanism, criticism of the movement, and provides a list of examples in the United States. Defining Elements • Mixed-Use Development: One of the fundamental principles of the New Urbanism is the creation of mixed-use neighborhoods.

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Hagibor Apartment Building, Prague, Czech Republic

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The first phase of the residential part of the Hagibor project in Prague 10, the Alfa and Beta buildings with a total of 160 residential units and commercial space on the ground floor, has been completed and now the architects are preparing the next phases of the residential project.

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Rural life faces grim reaper

Architecture Here and There

Another part of this long rural demise stems from the pressure of remorseless urban development as it spreads from city and suburb, chewing up the farm life.

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Grozny masterplanning competition, Chechen Republic

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DOM.RF, a Russian federal agency for mortgage services and urban development, delivers funding in support of the formidable goal. The action is supported by the Govern-ment of the Chechen Republic, Grozny Mayor Office and DOM.RF, a Russian federal government program operator for sustainable urban development.

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Competitions: UIA-HYP Cup 2024 International Competition in Architectural Design

Bustler

Topic Spatial Restructuring: Reestablishing Urban Density Interpretation China's urban development has entered an important period of comprehensive urban renewal, and urban construction has shifted from large-scale incremental construction to equal emphasis on improvement of existing buildings and structural adjustment of the newly built ones.