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Rethinking Urban Futures: Planning the Path to Decarbonization and Sustainable Cities

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To support these buildings and their inhabitants, it has been estimated, by then-UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres of the UN Environment Program, that three-quarters of the infrastructure that will exist in 2050 has yet to be built. trillion square feet (241 billion square meters) during the coming four decades.

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Stockholm Central Station design competition

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Stockholm Central Station design competition proposal, Swedish City Building, Transport Development Sweden, Architect. As the world’s collective focus shifts to more sustainable ways of living, working and travelling, it is vital that we enhance and redevelop our transport nodes and repair and connect the urban fabric around them.

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Designing with Nature: Luca Aldrighi

RMJM Architecture

Estimated reading time: 5 mins Within RMJM there has always been a driving force to produce sustainable and meaningful ‘high performance buildings’. As we continue to strive for progress and transparency, we acknowledge the fundamental relationship. The post Designing with Nature: Luca Aldrighi appeared first on RMJM.

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Smithfield Birmingham regeneration news

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Now this 17-hectare development in the historic heart of the city is set to transform Birmingham and create major economic opportunities, including an estimated 8,000 new jobs. The site played a central role in the hugely successful Commonwealth Games last summer, during which it hosted several games venues as well as the Smithfield Festival.

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A Vision for Baltimore (Part 2 - A Strategy)

Community Architect Daily

After some consideration I think that combining a new transportation paradigm with the concept of urbanity and connectivity would make a solid foundation for a new vision of Baltimore. Gone was the talk about congestion that dominated decades of public meetings about transportation. Connectivity follows the removal of barriers.

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HarborPlace: How not to make a deal

Community Architect Daily

They alone are estimated by MCB to cost another $400 million. What is the Planning Department saying which reportedly is preparing for a downtown masterplan into which Brambles stuff would have to fit? At this point it may be useful to recall that zoning was invented to protect the public.

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Towers instead of Pavilions: An entirely different Inner Harbor

Community Architect Daily

The new skyline of the Inner Harbor as per Bramble's design team The proposal departs from the original Harbor Masterplan of Wallace, Roberts Todd of the 1970s which defined an inner and an outer frame in which the inner structures had to be low with the exception of the World Trade Center. plan of Ayer Saint Gross of 2013.