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Foster + Partners and Sasaki Associates designing Sierra Leone island city for Idris Elba

Deezen

Architecture studios Sasaki Associates and Foster + Partners are masterplanning a smart city for up to a million people on Sherbro island in Sierra Leone. Sherbro Alliance Partners, which is co-ordinating the masterplan, has enlisted energy company Octopus to develop a strategy for electricity generation based on wind power.

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"The best climate activist is a good urban planner"

Deezen

Unlike buildings, transport or waste management, urban planning is not an emissions sector per se – therefore, when reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate actions, local and national governments rarely share information on their land-use policies.

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Rising Waters: 8 Innovative Designs in Flood-Prone Regions

Architizer

Thoughtfully designed structures and infrastructure in flood-prone areas can transform potential disaster zones into sustainable, adaptable spaces for both current and future generations. Its five zones—Bluff, Meadow, Riverbed, Marsh, and Dune—represent diverse Hudson River Valley landscapes, fostering environmental awareness in children.

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Nine projects that encapsulate The Laboratory of the Future at Venice Architecture Biennale

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"Africa's unique context, which is both richly challenging and richly creative, means it's a powerful place from which to examine the issues that will dominate the next century – climate change, societal change, demographic change, new forms of governance, explosive urbanity."

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Density - Dirty Word or Solution?

Community Architect Daily

A train without development: Failing mall next to a transit station (Photo: Philipsen) With zoning squarely in the hands of local council representatives, NIMBY pressure is always on them to keep new housing in existing communities at bay, especially denser multifamily housing that could bring "those people" to their neighborhood.

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Who Owns the City? - How David won Against Goliath in Downtown Columbia

Community Architect Daily

In the alternative universe of this story, each of the familiar roles in city governance is played by a private entity: Instead of a city council there is a board of directors. But this city is not governed by a city charter but by the bylaws of a giant home-owners association (HOA). The jury verdict the answer is: No.

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Clemson University spotlights ten architecture student projects

Deezen

The MRUD program prepares individuals to engage complex cultural, market and government policy forces through sustainable and resilient urban forms. This new extended community reconnects this swath of the city to the nearby residential zones." This was Ray's final design response for his assigned area of the peninsula."

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