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Tonkin Liu creates nature-informed tower for Manchester's Civic Quarter

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Tonkin Liu 's architectural interventions form part of the city's Civic Quarter Heat Network and Energy Centre, which provides low-carbon energy to a network of key sites across the district. It was designed to provide a visible expression of the project's environmental agenda and is illuminated like a beacon at night.

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The Rise and Fall of Charles Center - A lesson in urban planning

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Early concept plans of Charles Center Urban Renewal by the Planning Council 1957 (Archive of UMB) The Charles Center story has been told so often, it has become part of Baltimore's lore as a comeback city: Baltimore that came out of WWII still big, but mostly stagnant. everywhere.

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American Icon or Chief Offender?

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It makes up more than half of all US residential accommodations and in many cities it is written into the code as the right and only form to live. The history of zoning Zoning in general rarely gets much attention these days. R1 [is] the sort of problem planning was designed to solve. A gateway to freedom or to systemic racism?

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In Pigtown a Microcosm of Baltimore

Community Architect Daily

This particular Amazon of the day was owned by the local immigrant Jacob Epstein, born in 1864 in Lithuania, who came as a 15 year old to Baltimore. He served on the Public Improvements Commission, the supervisory body charged with developing the land that Baltimore City annexed from the County in 1918, which tripled the size of the city.