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Jinling East Road Area Urban regeneration project by Benoy

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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’. Image © Benoy.

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Places in Time III

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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. So why include it?

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University of Arkansas Community Design Center Proposes Downtown Housing Regeneration Scheme

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Developer input was certainly helpful in understanding market tolerance and financing metrics, which shape much of what gets built in everyday environments. 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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St. Petersburg Gorskaya Territory Competition

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Jury To Select Competition Finalists For The Development Of Concepts For The Gorskaya Territory. On February 3, at 12:00, a meeting of the Jury of the Open International Competition for architectural and urban development solutions for Gorskaya territory, St. Petersburg Gorskaya Territory Competition News.

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Austin Transit Partnership Announces Collaboration, Texas

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Project Connect will advance this by creating a human-centric transit system that celebrates Austin’s culture, history and diversity, while making the city more accessible for all of its citizens through an efficient and sustainable transportation system.

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Norilsk Design Competition, Russia

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The competion is mainly focussed on a view on the physical and urban development of the city, its landscape and also economic and touristic promotion. For me the social development is also an important second part of this view on the future. I really am looking forward to this moment of presentations in March.

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White House announces new guidebook to funding office conversions nationwide

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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 announcement comes as vacancy rates have skyrocketed to 30-year highs, according to the White House.

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