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A new 15-minute city is being developed near Salt Lake City

Brandon Donnelly

In 2018, the Utah State Legislature passed a bill creating a new land authority to guide the future development of 600 acres of state-owned land in Draper, Utah (just south of Salt Lake City). In this case, the plan is to create car free zones (or limited vehicle zones) across the various centers of the development.

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Dhaka Tower, Bangladesh building by OMA

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The design has been led by OMA Partner Iyad Alsaka and developed by Dhaka-based real estate developer Shanta Holdings. Rather than conforming to a standard zoning envelope of a tower on a podium, the base is pyramidal, providing soaring atriums with direct connection to landscaped exterior spaces.

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What Makes a Good Comprehensive Plan?

Community Architect

The General Plan serves as a blueprint for the future, prescribing policy goals and objectives to shape and guide the physical development of the City. ( The General Plan serves as a blueprint for the future, prescribing policy goals and objectives to shape and guide the physical development of the City. (

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American Icon or Chief Offender?

Community Architect

Or, more precisely, and even more mundane, the zoning that enables it. The culprit hides out in a section of municipal zoning code that is titled "Single family residential", frequently abbreviated as R1. The history of zoning Zoning in general rarely gets much attention these days. Let's review the battles lines.

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Diocesan School for Girls Music & Drama, Auckland

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The building is the latest stage in the School’s 15-year Masterplan, prepared by McIldowie Partners and Upton Architects in 2005. The Masterplan was conceived and implemented to ensure appropriate, sustainable, cohesive development of the campus over time. Completion date: 2018. Architect: McIldowie Partners.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

Traces of San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, Boston's Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, promoted by a visionary developer, designed by a Harvard Dean of architecture, nearly defeated in a referendum, those are the ingredients that made Baltimore's HarborPlace a model for urban waterfronts around the world nearly half a century ago.

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Estonia Architecture News: Estonian Buildings

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Estonian Architecture News 2022, Building Development, Construction Design, Property Images. Contemporary Building Developments in the Baltic States – New Built Environment Updates. Estonia Architecture News 2018 – 2020. 7 Sep 2018. Old City Harbour Masterplan 2030 competition , Kadriorg, Port of Tallinn.