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"Design can do more to reduce the built environment's capacity for enabling misogyny"

Deezen

Surely those charged with planning and designing can do more to reduce the built environment's capacity for enabling misogyny? By making improvements to public transport, lighting and sanitation in urban spaces, inroads could be made towards making places safer for women and girls, thereby enhancing their physical and social mobility.

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Ways To Safely Hazardous Materials Transportation

The Architecture Designs

So, let’s go through what dangerous products and hazmat materials are and how transportation firms may appropriately manage these items and materials. source: pinterest.com Dangerous products are chemicals or objects that endanger one’s health, safety, or environment. How To Transport Hazardous Substances?

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Goose Creek Safety Rest Area // VJAA Inc.

Architizer

An Apparatus for “Slowing Things Down”The Goose Creek Safety Rest Area is sited along Interstate 35 at the Gateway to the Arrowhead Region, a part of Minnesota that includes the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area, the Gunflint Trail, and the scenic North Shore of Lake Superior. Goose Creek Safety Rest Area Gallery. © VJAA Inc. © VJAA Inc.

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AIR SQUARE by KOGAA

Archinect

AIR SQUARE is a transportable venue that activates underused urban spaces by bringing them purpose and a vibrant public life. It responds to the need to alleviate climate change issues by tackling overexposed heat islands and lack of green and livable public spaces. At night it provides illumination to dark and less safe urban corners.

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How to Remove Snow Without Ruining the Environment

Dwell

All of this builds up over time and persists in the environment, posing a threat to both ecosystems and human health, according to Columbia University. Battery expert Steve Brown, founder of Battery Chargers Info , notes that electric snow shovels are better for the environment than traditional tools.

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New York transit infrastructure risks "falling behind" after paused congestion pricing

Deezen

billion funding package meant to help fund repairs for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), the state-run body that manages New York's transportation infrastructure. The health and welfare of the most vulnerable New Yorkers depends on bold climate action and public transportation," said Weisz.

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Three Myths Which Misled Transportation Policy for Decades

Community Architect

But with the increasing cost of maintaining such high mobility, other divisions have appeared, such as rural versus urban, environment versus freedom, safety versus speed, or health versus convenience. Traffic and transportation defines in a big way how we live in America. have made traffic a much more contentious topic.