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A bill that could make zoning more inclusive

Community Architect Daily

In recent years planners have become much more aware of the exclusionary effects that zoning has had on people and their towns and cities. The old zoning separated neatly housing from everything else presumably in the interest of public health. Dismantling the legacy zoning system is no small task.

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Estonia Architecture News: Estonian Buildings

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This will be preceded at 12 o’clock by tours at the competition site led by Tartu city architect and his team. The site is located in Tammiste, a village in Tori Parish, Pärnu County in south-western Estonia and it was used to build a drumlin, which was subsequently covered in flora to fit in with the surrounding scenery.

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"Cities are branding themselves into predictably unique products"

Deezen

The city is increasingly thought of as prop and backdrop for a life lived on Instagram These are just a few of the elements of the city authentic, the third and latest movement of urban development. The city authentic is global but it is largely endemic to small and medium-sized post-industrial cities in rich nations.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

Only Domino Sugar's processing factory and dock remained active within site of the Inner Harbor. By contrast, the neighboring retail free McKeldin plaza, isolated by traffic as it was, had become Baltimore's free speech zone and ground zero for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Some had seen decline coming.

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ReefLine Sculpture Park, Miami Beach

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The living breakwater is the connective tissue for the overall masterplan and will be punctuated by a series of site-specific installations. Titled Concrete Coral, the site-specific installation will reframe cars and trucks—a symbol of the emissions that endanger our planet—as new vehicles for environmental change.

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Liverpool Building News: Merseyside Architecture

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Designed by Snow Architects, the Commercial Road site comprising 70 apartments of 1, 2, & 3-beds over two blocks is within 15 minutes’ walk from the new Everton FC stadium and adjacent to Tobacco Wharf and the Leeds and Liverpool canal. Liverpool becomes only the third site to lose its World Heritage status since the list began in 1978.

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20 Best Architecture Firms in Hong Kong

Architizer

To pursue this passion, they began their practice since 2011 in Hong Kong. We believe the intrinsic local culture and technology found at the project site should be respected. Through natural and synthetic materials, we research and develop new methods of architectural detail assembly. Some of TheeAe Architects LTD.’s