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Grow the City!

Community Architect Daily

Priorities galore: Fix the schools, crime, equity, the justice system, the property taxes, vacant properties, potholes and transit. Abandonment through shrinkage (Photo: Philipsen) Growing the City is not a universally accepted goal. But investments also serve current residents. Create more jobs.

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"We need a major shift in the way we look at public housing"

Deezen

To help kick off our Social Housing Revival series, Peter Apps calls for a return to mass public house-building in cities around the world. More than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas – increasingly in large, very densely populated cities – and projections suggest this proportion will keep growing through to 2050.

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18 Best Architecture Firms in San Francisco

Architizer

Unlike many cities, San Francisco’s most iconic structure is not a building but a bridge. While the Golden Gate looms large in popular culture, it casts a shadow over some of the hilly city’s more iconic buildings. Each of these metrics is explained in more detail at the foot of this article.

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How to Sell a City

Dwell

Communities of all sizes now use influencer tactics to build buzz and an identifiable regional brand. Such a hashtag does exist, and its contents include quaint cabins (which just so happen to be the setting of the movie) along with farms, exquisite food, fishing, and a lot of real estate agents’ listings.

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How to Overcome "Not in my Neighborhood" and Increase Affordable Housing

Community Architect

Meanwhile the country continues to build way too many expensive luxury dwelling units and not nearly enough affordable ones, especially for the lowest income levels. Some of the proposed funding efforts are "place based" such as building or renovating units, some are tenant-based such as vouchers.

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

Community Architect

Future proofing in highly uncertain times Amortization in real estate frequently exceeds 25 years, comprehensive plans try to shape the future for 10 years, sometimes longer. What are those who shape the world as part of their job, the planners, architects, real estate developers and designers of all shades supposed to do?

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The Future of Cities: Back to Basics?

Community Architect

Flexibility is smartness and equals resilience, a new property needed for whatever future we can imagine. Business Journals ) Cities are forced to balance their budgets and must cut expenses and investments and trim their already ransacked workforces where federal aid doesn't help them out. from the same period in 2019. (

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