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Boston reprioritizes Planning and Development Agency as reformers push to eliminate structural inequality

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As a 2020 Boston Globe article stated: "The quasi-governmental agency referees Boston’s major real estate development, a sector that one agency board member described [.] Other critics have amplified her call, arguing that it inculcates structural racism. as overwhelmingly white and male.

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Climate Lessons From the Floating Villages of Cambodia

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© Steven Bingler This article was originally published on Common Edge. Lake Tonle Sap is a part of Cambodia ’s inland water system that’s connected to the flooded forests that purify water and buffer communities from storms—an important benefit as climate change makes extreme weather more frequent. Read more »

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Disaster is well and truly upon us

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This year, as in previous years, the world shook, then burned, then flooded, then did it all again. In September another earthquake in Morocco took at least 2,946 lives, just two days before flooding in Libya killed literally untold thousands. Our latest series looks at how designers and architects can help manage natural hazards.

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Tredje Natur proposes floating car parks to prevent urban flooding

Deezen

Next in our Designing for Disaster series, we spotlight Pop Up, Danish studio Tredje Natur's bold proposal for cities to build floating car parks on top of flood-preventing reservoirs. Denmark has emerged as a world leader in the space, after a freak flash flood in 2011 caused more than $1 billion of damage to Copenhagen in just two hours.

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"It is time for all of us to become aware of the gravity of the situation"

Deezen

Continuing our Designing for Disaster series, Yasmeen Lari warns that architects in the Global North cannot ignore the threat from environmental hazards exacerbated by climate change. As built environment professionals and as architects, are we aware that we are aggravating climate change because of the way we design and build?

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Yasmeen Lari on track to build a million flood-resilient Pakistan homes by 2024

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After extreme floods put a third of Pakistan under water in 2022, architect Yasmeen Lari vowed to build one million flood-resilient homes. The latest update from the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan , founded by Lari, is that the rebuild programme has so far provided 333,000 homes for those displaced by the 2022 floods.

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"Design professionals can make choices to prove that disasters are not natural"

Deezen

As long as plenty of warning is available alongside safe and effective evacuation routes and sheltering for everyone, it is often best to get out of the way of a fire or a flood followed by rebuilding afterwards. The disaster is not a fire, a flood or wind, since sometimes people suffer during these hazards and sometimes they do not.

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