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Jones Studio selected to design Central Arizona Project’s New Water Education Center

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The Central Arizona Water Conservation District Board has approved a professional services contract with Phoenix-based architecture firm Jones Studio to design a Water Education Center for Central Arizona Project.

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How to Grow a Greenway

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Parts of the site, along with the neighborhoods bordering it—Tremé, Lafitte, Tulane-Gravier, Mid-City, and Lakeview—flooded during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In 2010, the city, armed with Disaster Recovery funding from the Community Development Block Grant program, took up the park idea. Photo courtesy Adam Mejerson.

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Competitions: Jiaxing Ancient City Connecting South Lake International Concept Design Competition on Footbridge Crossing Huancheng River and Railway

Bustler

The Competition, initiated by Jiaxing City Urban Investment Development Group Co., It will not only respond to the characteristics of the ancient city and its surroundings, but also integrate modernity and adapt to changes in the future. The bridge swings over the stream “with ease and power.”

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Finally: Electric buses coming to Baltimore in 2023

Community Architect Daily

The Act prohibits the MTA from purchasing any more diesel buses, even if they call them "clean diesel" as they have in the past (already existing delivery contracts can continue). Proterra bus in Broward County 2021 (Photo: Proterra) The city of Duluth ran into similar problems with their US made Proterra electric buses in 2021.

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Peak | Ideal Neighborhood

ArchiDiaries

Fig: 1 – Small cities have turned into metropolitans with agglomeration and expansion, towns into cities with urbanisation. THE STATE OF CITIES TODAY. The building of cities has been a grand task for the past century. Cities are constantly retrofitted to manage the concerns of all factions of the population.

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Atlantis Printed | Ocean Habitat

ArchiDiaries

Produce realistic visions of how the city would be functioning as a 3D printed habitat. Low-lying coastal cities are already facing devastating floods , some of them are sinking because of over-extraction of groundwater, while others are because of encroachment on their coastal belts. Sink or swim. By doing so can we go underwater?

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U Farm | Urban Farming Center

ArchiDiaries

The design can be inspired by the city landscape. As the population in cities is anticipated to grow in the future, a circular economy system needs to be established to fight the threats faced. Fig: 2 – Urban farming in cities is practised by huge corporations on building rooftops. Bringing farming into the city.