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Unlocking Urban Potential: Street Vending Integration Strategies in Informal Settings

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via Shutterstock | Emmage | a crowded marketplace in Port Harcourt City with structures consisting mostly of colourful umbrellas. Mostly categorized under the informal economy due to lack of regulations and authorization, street markets in the global south have often been seen as a threat to urban development. Read more ยป

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The English city of Bradford develops a digital twin to help inform planning decisions and promote cultural heritage

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An online space called Virtual Bradford is set to be completed this summer that would provide a high-resolution 3D online “brick-for-brick” digital twin of Bradford, England’s city center. The project is a collaboration between the University of Bradford and the Bradford Council.

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Drexel University researchers develop AI-guided robotic structural inspection system

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The article they published recently in the Elsevier journal Automation in Construction presented the potential for a new multi-scale monitoring system informed by deep-learning algorithms that work to find cracks and other damage to buildings before using LiDAR to produce three-dimensional images for inspectors to aid in their documentation.

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6 Successful City Park Projects That Are Hotspots for Biodiversity

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Benjakitti Forest Park / Arsomslip Community and Environmental Architect ยฉ Srirath Somsawat Modernity and globalization have significantly reduced geographical distances, transformed social interactions, and accelerated the flow of information across nations, which has, in a sense, made the world more accessible to people everywhere.

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Jenny Holzer restages 1989 projection piece at the Guggenheim in New York City

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Guggenheim Foundation, New York "Developed in close collaboration with the artist and her studio, the new sign was the subject of an ambitious research project. Guggenheim conservators reverse-engineered the 1989 LED hardware and computer program, which helped inform the new manifestation. Photo: Ariel Ione Williams © Solomon R.

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Vestiges of industry inform hotel complex on former factory site in Bordeaux

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A 36-metre-tall concrete silo has been converted into a dramatic hotel lobby at Bacalan Block โ€“ the transformation of a former factory site in Bordeaux into a mixed-use development by Colboc Sachet Architects. Atop its roof, a row of gabled metal forms contain a restaurant and spa wrapped by a panoramic terrace overlooking the city.

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Cars and hurricanes inform "sail-shape" of Aston Martin's first residential skyscraper

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Located in Downtown Miami, the 66-storey skyscraper was designed through a collaboration between the British car manufacturer and Bodus Mian Anger ( BMA ) and developed by local firm G&G Business Developments. The construction comes despite indications that sea-level rises could affect the infrastructure of the city.