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London’s clean air zone

Brandon Donnelly

In 2019, London implemented something known as an Ultra-Low Emission Zone (or ULEZ). If you enter the zone, don’t have an approved plate, and don’t pay the charge within a few days, you get sent a fine. The result is that London’s ULEZ is now the largest clean air zone in the world ( at least according to London ).

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New Directions: 7 Ways Contemporary Architects Are Shaking Up Traditional Transport Spaces

Architizer

Yet, in deft hands, transportation structures can transcend this hazy realm of the in-between to become meaningful destinations in their own right. Meanwhile, a parking zone was absorbed into a new, wider public pathway that accommodates pedestrians and cyclists amid a burgeoning ecosystem of planting.

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Glasgow approves 'people first' city centre transport plan

Urban Realm

Glasgow City Council has approved a transport plan which will guide the delivery of a People First Zone across the city centre over the next decade.

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HOK debuts modular vertiport design for future flying car race series

Archinect

The burgeoning future of personal airborne transportation is a topic on many minds of late as advancements in aviation technology make the prospect of flying cars and similar vehicles more and more feasible. Now, HOK is entering its name into a mix with a design for what will be the world’s first flying car racing series.

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Three Myths Which Misled Transportation Policy for Decades

Community Architect

Traffic and transportation defines in a big way how we live in America. It is time to question some of the seemingly self evident truths, that have guided transportation engineering and policies for decades, such as that a high level of mobility equals prosperity or that congestion is always bad. Time to rethink the metrics!

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High-Tech, High Pace: This Groundbreaking Humanitarian Build Reimagines Reconstruction in Crisis Zones

Architizer

. “You never know where and when the missiles will come,” says Maria Povstyana, clarifying, as if it were needed, how challenging logistics can be in the world’s most visible war zone. The post High-Tech, High Pace: This Groundbreaking Humanitarian Build Reimagines Reconstruction in Crisis Zones appeared first on Journal.

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Barvikha Club by Asadov Architectural Studio

Archinect

Then the pedestrian zone begins – the central boulevard leading to the community center of the village. A ring road with branches to each group of houses runs along the perimeter of the site. The residential part consists of 110 semi–detached cottages — «townhouses» — with an area of 175 and 200 sq.m.