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Big 5 Global and LiveableCitiesX: Premier Global Gathering for Urban Development and Construction Leaders

ArchDaily

Courtesy of DMG As global urbanization accelerates, the demand for forward-thinking urban development and construction strategies is more pressing than ever, with an estimated 80% of the world's population expected to live in cities by 2080—particularly in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Read more »

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YACademy architecture students design conceptual pediatric clinics

Deezen

The United Nations even before the pandemic began estimated that the fragmentation caused by conflicts, combined with the effects of economic and ecological crises, was generating a humanitarian emergency greater than that caused by the Second World War.

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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. Although estimates vary widely, the metropolitan region is now believed to be home to more than 17 million people, making this an extreme primate city — far dwarfing all others in the country.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

BD+C

MFPRO+ Blog Mixed-Use Affordable Housing Senior Living Design Apartments Designers Architects New Project Portfolios A wave of residential projects rising across the country is meeting an insatiable demand, given the estimated shortage of 7.3 million homes that are accessible to low-income renters.

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Sustainability and liveability claims of Saudi 170-kilometre city are "naive" say experts

Deezen

Following the Saudi Arabian government's unveiling of plans for an enormous linear megacity in the desert, urban design experts have expressed skepticism about whether its utopian vision is realistic. Oldfield has estimated that building The Line would produce upwards of 1.8 That is where I start to become a bit dubious.

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"By focusing so much on carbon reduction we are neglecting other areas where our industry causes harm"

Deezen

Forty-four per cent of global GDP in cities is estimated to be at risk of disruption from nature loss. In the UK, the government's 25-year Environment Plan will require all new development in England to provide a biodiversity uplift of at least 10 per cent according to a habitat-based metric. It will benefit people, too.

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The Chesapeake Bay - A Complex Eco-System Explained

Community Architect

Increasing floods graph (NOAA) Add culture and urban development. When it was blasted away in 2018 for better river health, a big question was where the estimated 140,000 cubic meter of sediment that had collected behind the dam would go. A decisive battle in the Revolutionary War was fought here.