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"The people of Los Angeles waited patiently for half a decade to make use of a useless site"

Deezen

This billion-dollar tomb to foreign real-estate speculation in the western corner of downtown Los Angeles (DTLA), laid hollow since 2019, was revived early this year by graffiti artists and paragliders that made it their night-time playground. The people of Los Angeles waited patiently for half a decade to make use of a useless site.

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How to Sell a City

Dwell

For four years her gift shop, the Fort Orange General Store in Albany, was the only Capital Region entry in Escape Brooklyn until Saratoga Springs got a whole travel guide at the end of 2019. The May 2019 cover story of the Albany Business Review asked "What is Albany’s brand?"

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Campus Protests Are Revealing the Precarity of Student Housing

Dwell

In small college towns where off-campus living is scarce, or in places like New York City, where thousands of dollars a year in residential fees (often paid partially by student loans) may be more affordable than off-campus housing, expulsion from campus residences can be life-altering. According to the Spectator , ".a

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"Britain's architects should refuse to let moralising snobbery define their approach to laundry"

Deezen

This is not a council estate" declared an anonymous all caps note that went viral in 2019 after the recipient posted it on Mumsnet. Yet until relatively recently, UK attitudes were very different with clothes drying outside a common sight in cities, and many of the best British housing estates designed with expressive laundry facilities.

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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

Bustler

These are the 2023 finalists and their proposals: Isabel Abascal: “Mother Architecture: Shaping Birth” Isabel Abascal is a Mexico City–based architect and writer. She will also schedule in-person curated experiences in select cities, including dinner salons, roundtables, panel discussions, and other related events. Osseo-Asare!s

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LWK + PARTNERS Architects, Hong Kong

e-architect

In Hong Kong , a subtropical high-density city, commercial buildings currently take up the highest percentage of electricity use and this is exacerbated by its ageing building stock which is significantly holding back the city’s transition to carbon neutrality by 2050. 25 Nov 2019. 12 Nov 2019. 21 Oct 2021. 8 July 2021.

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The Future of Cities: Back to Basics?

Community Architect

But the future remains shrouded in doubt and uncertainty, the future of cities included. Manhattan, New York City (Photo: Philipsen) Only the broadest terms seem clear: The future won't be like the past, nor will it be how we imagined it before the pandemic. As a result crime went up in many big cities across the nation.

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