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Yancheng East Lake Xinyu Commercial by Lacime Architects

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This project is located in the Urban Sports Park and along the canal in the Eastern Development Zone of Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. Surrounded by government offices, residential areas, reception hotels, and other facilities, it represents a typical new urban development zone in China.

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Kongjian Yu? wins the 2023 Oberlander Prize for achievements in landscape architecture

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Yu is known throughout the landscape profession for pioneering the ‘sponge cityurban design concept in China after 1995. He said in a recent interview that its roots stem from his childhood experiences in Jinhua.

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Top-Down and Bottom-Up Urban Planning: A Synergetic Approach

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Image © Municipality of Bogota From the grid plans of ancient Greek cities to the Renaissance's idealized urban layouts, the history of urban planning is a reflection of evolving power structures and societal priorities. Across the world, many African and Asian cities simultaneously existed without clear visual manifestation.

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Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global Conference | Architecture | Architonic

Architonic

Rapid urbanisation is shaping cities, putting pressure on their quality of life and posing significant challenges. FCL Global, a collaboration between ETH Zurich and universities in Singapore (NUS, NTU, SUTD), adopts a transdisciplinary approach that links design, technology, science and governance.

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Maldives reveals "world's first true floating island city" to cope with rising sea levels

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The Maldives has partnered with architecture studio Waterstudio to create a brain-shaped floating city that will house 20,000 people in a lagoon near the country's capital. Called Maldives Floating City , the development will contain 5,000 low-rise floating homes floating within a 200-hectare lagoon in the Indian Ocean.

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HUD is committing $365 million to help prevent homeless encampments. Will it be enough?

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In an effort to halt the actions of different major cities to sweep away homeless encampments in recent years, the federal government is now taking direct action in the form of two expanded grant programs it says have become necessary in the face of rising inflation and untenable rental markets. Bloomberg is reporting that the U.S.

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Competitions: International Competition for Implementation-Oriented Urban Design of the Core Area of Hangzhou Linping Digital & Smart City

Bustler

The urban growth of Hangzhou Metropolitan Area has been moving from the "West Lake Era" (West Lake centered development) to the "Qiantang River Era" (River-supporting development), the era of technology and innovation corridor, and now towards the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. Industry 4.0,

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