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A bill that could make zoning more inclusive

Community Architect Daily

Baltimore County: report for Security Square Mall redevelopment At the same time the supply of these single use land areas got entirely out of whack with demand: The country is totally oversupplied with commercial and retail areas in a time when online shopping and global production have put the squeeze on retail and commercial operations.

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Why after 20 years EBDI is still no success story

Community Architect Daily

Success or failure I asked in a 2015 blog article about EBDI and in the end had no definite answer. Enough for EBDI CEO Cheryl Washington to describe the project as "on track" in 2020. "We EBDI CEO Cheryl Washington in Jan 2020). Gomez sees the EBDI plan mostly as an effort of Hopkins to "expand their walls".

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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Left: Student Residence in Saclay_momentum, Saclay, France, 2020 A+Awards Popular Winner in the Small Multi-Unit Housing category; Right: Anna Maria Bordas via Bordas+Peiro. 2020 A+Award winner Anna Maria Bordas is an architect from ENSAVT and engineer of Ponts et Chaussées engineering school. Anna Maria Bordas. Cécile Brisac.

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How to Teach Equity in Architecture?

Community Architect

Introduction to the guest blog When in 1968 the then President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Robert Durham, FAIA, extended an invitation to the executive director of the National Urban League, Whitney M. Young, Jr., students to real situations and emphasis the importance of designing for communities, with communities.

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How climate, pandemic, and war shape the "future proofing" of buildings, cities and regions

Community Architect

This panel shows that ailing commercial zones don't convert by themselves into the much needed mixed use and housing. How will masterplans look like that plan for such a features? Instead targeted local plans and strategic infrastructure investments are needed as incentives. How will zoning accomodate on the ground solar?

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American Icon or Chief Offender?

Community Architect

In many cities, R1 prevents housing development where development would be most beneficial and instead pushes development—and conflict over it—into denser, lower income neighborhoods, onto polluted commercial corridors, and into the undeveloped land outside city boundaries. then Seattle in 2021 with a slightly more subtle approach.

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