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Urban Terrarium: Only Architect-Landscape Architect Collaboration Can Truly Delivery Biodiversity

Architizer

A minimum of 10% improvement on current environmental and habitat health must now be included in any property development plans. It also casts in sharp relief a historic oversight on the part of everyone involved in urban development and the built environment. It’s a big question.

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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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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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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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"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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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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The Chesapeake Bay - A Complex Eco-System Explained

Community Architect

Beavers damming streams and creating wetlands, a bounty of huge oysters, 100' schooners transporting the lumber that came from swampy woodlands being converted into tobacco farms, finally massive sprawly shoreline development and a huge load of sediment reshaping the waterway in many ways.

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We're Off to See the Waltons

Dwell

Then, building on that goodwill, they become a shadow local government of sorts—donating millions of dollars to " revitalize " downtowns, build regional greenways , put up murals, and fund nonprofits. The population is estimated to reach nearly 1 million by 2045. Admission is free. Destination hotel packages start at $2,800 a person.