Deezen

MAY 13, 2024

Skyscrapers get a bad rap but are crucial to the success of cities , writes economics professor Jason Barr. Height limits eventually fell by the wayside as cities realised they caused more harm than good Around the turn of the 20th century, cities frequently banned skyscrapers. The fundamental answer is markets.

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Santa Cruz Architect

APRIL 13, 2024

Consequently, state laws regulating ADUs have been progressively relaxed, accompanied by increased pressure on local municipalities to simplify the building process. Keeping up with the evolving rules for designing an ADU has become challenging, with new regulations and policies emerging regularly.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 23, 2024

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 »

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SW Oregon Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Last Thursday’s edition was no exception as it brought to my attention the City of Eugene’s Pre-Approved Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Program. The City intends its ADU program to “significantly and thoughtfully reduce barriers to housing by fast-tracking the permitting process.” 62 percent of U.S.

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SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

This is not a regulated view corridor. Google Street View) View corridors are planning tools used in urban design and city planning to protect and enhance specific views within a city. The goal is to maintain or create aesthetically pleasing vistas that contribute to the overall character and identity of a city.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The role, based in New York City, calls for an individual to join a practice “recognized worldwide for its creative interfacing of landscape and architecture.” In August,

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Community Architect Daily

MAY 7, 2024

The magic of water : An early town center model and an artificial lake Waterfront development, outdated structures dating back to James Rouse's original vision now slated for demolition, and a dispute over development rights and community interests - who would not immediately think of Baltimore's HarborPlace?

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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 16, 2023

20-04 in March of 2020, which directed all state agencies to take actions to reduce and regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In response, the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission updated Oregon’s Transportation Planning Rules to launch the Climate-Friendly and Equitable Communities (CFEC) program in July 2022.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

5 things developers should know about mass timber 0 qpurcell Thu, 02/15/2024 - 13:36 Mass Timber Gensler's Erik Barth, architect and regional design resilience leader, shares considerations for developers when looking at mass timber solutions. Erik Barth Regulations Mass Timber Wood The Changing Built Environment The U.N.’s

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Archinect

DECEMBER 20, 2022

New Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass is wasting no time dismantling the regulatory process that’s long been held up as the source and exacerbator of the city’s intertwined homelessness and affordable housing crises. The directive will also waive the discretionary review process of all developments not requiring zoning changes.

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Archinect

JULY 25, 2022

Following last week’s visit to Los Angeles-based Stayner Architects, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series east to New York City, where we find ODA Architecture. Founded in 2007, the studio has developed an international reputation for delivering what it describes as “imaginative and mold-breaking designs.”

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The Plus One ADU pilot program launched this week and will fund up to 15 projects throughout the city. In a new initiative that launched this week, New York City residential building owners could begin receiving financial support to construct new accessory dwelling units (ADUs).

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SW Oregon Architect

MAY 19, 2024

For one, Euclidean land-use regulations historically downzoned urban areas, effectively banning multifamily housing while promoting suburban sprawl. The type is a compelling alternative to the “5-over-1” model so prevalent for multifamily developments in the U.S. That’s hardly the case today. There are several reasons for this.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Nonprofit New York City Economic Development Corporation has launched New York City Mass Timber Studio, an assistance program for the development of mass-timber construction within New York City. Teams can submit projects ranging from residential to industrial development.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

At Hitra Office & Commercial Building, we have found the answer by redefining the current regulations & restrictions to cause a win-win relationship with the building, neighborhood & city. To become a new expandable typology, Hitra devotes its obligatory void to the city as an opportunity to shape communal spaces.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

With ground set to be broken next year on the first stages of the monumental development and the first structures set to welcome tenants from 2027, the company is master-planning a small city in Sickla, Stockholm. This is fascinating, but it’s Wood City’s fundamental raison d’être that really intrigues.

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Archinect

JUNE 18, 2022

The city's homeless encampment reporting system shows that members of the public have repeatedly reported campers on the sidewalk that's now dotted with bike racks […] The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT), which regulates sidewalk use and bike rack installation, said the new racks were completely off their radar.

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Deezen

APRIL 21, 2022

Released last month, the two-part London Plan Guidance package sets out how significant developments will need to report and cut down on waste and whole-life carbon to further the city's goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2030. Whole-life carbon benchmarks for major developments . The top photo is by Rumman Amin.

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Architizer

APRIL 12, 2023

How smart and green a city is can be determined by environmental initiatives, progressive urban planning, infrastructure with technology at its core and the availability of IoT-monitored resources for people working and living in the city. Right: Smart City Illustration. Illustration by Bartz/Stockmar, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Los Angeles must rezone to accommodate an additional quarter-million new homes by mid-October after state housing regulators rejected the city’s long-term plan for growth. Current estimates have the number of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles at over 66,000.). “Rezoning the.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2022

If passed, the Efficient and Green Mobility package would require the 424 largest cities in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) to hash out sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs) centred on these kinds of "active mobility" modes by 2025. Read: London, New York, Paris and Milan give streets to cyclists and pedestrians.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The mixed-use Zugló City Centre in Budapest’s 14th district integrates new civic spaces surrounded by nature together with homes, shops and offices on a site of nearly seven hectares between Bosnyák Square and Rákos Creek. The project will create one of the greenest and most sustainable neighborhoods on the Pest side of the capital.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Over that time he has served as an architect, planner, educator, and an advisor to cities in and beyond the US, including Charleston, South Carolina, Omaha, and New York City, where he was Director of Urban Design in the Department of City Planning.

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e-architect

JULY 5, 2023

Toulouse is an important centre for aviation, research and education; the city is home to Airbus and a number of major universities, and wants – and needs – to expand. The challenge was to create an architectural statement that is monumental but also sustainable, embedded in the city and functional.

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 6, 2022

As I suspect many other homeowners residing in one of Eugene’s R-1 low-density neighborhoods did, my wife and I received a mailer from Housing-Facts.org this past week beseeching us to learn more about the City of Eugene’s pending Middle Housing code amendments. Such developments are simply beyond their reach. Therein lies the rub.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Proponents of the built-from-scratch smart cities emerging around the globe fail to understand that communities cannot be created through technological innovation, write Adam Scott and Dave Waddell. Read: Ten futuristic cities set to be built around the world. It will be a planned, controlled community," explained Disney.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Seattle has implemented a new regulation to reduce the number of rats occupying vacant buildings. The port city ranks first in the U.S. The new rat eradication regulation goes into effect in 2017. It requires developers to prove they have consulted with a pest-control professional before any vacant building is demolished.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 21, 2022

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been named winner of the competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre. Jinghe New City is growing as a science and technology hub north of Xi’an in China’s Shaanxi province. RBS Regulation and technical consultant: ???????????????

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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 9, 2022

Despite this reality, developers build to turn a profit first rather than to supply housing for people who need it; larger, more expensive, and less affordable homes are the result. They can mitigate some shortcomings of Euclidean zoning, but they also add a layer of complexity to regulations most people already have difficulty understanding.

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Bustler

MAY 3, 2023

Abstract Urban desert cities and their communities face a hostile future. The City of Tempe, one of the densest communities in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, is already a leader in climate action. Yet, there is still work to be done. Change at this scale cannot happen overnight.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Jinghe New City is growing as a science and technology hub north of Xi’an in China’s Shaanxi province. Supported by new scientific research institutes and driven by environmental considerations, the city is becoming a centre for developing industries focussing on new energy and materials, artificial intelligence and aerospace.

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Architizer

JULY 25, 2023

Across the globe, major cities have often grown in waterside locations. The planet’s most rapidly urbanizing continent, OECD modeling suggests that within the next 30 years, its cities will need to house an additional 950 million people. It’s a chillingly frank message. This truth is strikingly pronounced in Africa.

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The Architecture Designs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

We can see numerous masterpieces and architectural wonders from every developed nation and this journey are never-ending. . Interestingly, there is a new concept of civilization and urban city planning introduced by Saudi Arabia; the popular name is The Neom City; which is going to blow your mind. Neom City Project “The Line” .

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BD+C

AUGUST 9, 2019

With housing affordability reaching crisis proportions in many cities, local officials are implementing new zoning regulations to catalyze more home construction. Land-use rules that include density restrictions, and even some that influence aesthetics and design, restrict development.

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Santa Cruz Architect

APRIL 19, 2023

The City Beautiful Movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities. visited many of the great cities of Europe. The Washington, D.C. They hoped to make Washington, D.C.

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e-architect

JANUARY 14, 2022

Ibis Sendagaya, Shibuya City Homes, Tokyo Real Estate, Japanese Apartments Architecture, Japan Accommodation Photos. Location: Shibuya City, Tokyo, Japan. Each level’s floor plate is uniquely skewed according to the shadow regulation, usages, spatial sequences, and vertical relationships. Ibis Sendagaya in Tokyo.

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Deezen

MARCH 22, 2024

The buildings are designed to meet the minimum sunlight requirement in China while taking a new formal approach At Longnan Garden estate, Atelier GOM wanted to explore how a different combination of height and density could improve the living comfort and viewing experience for the residents while still meeting the regulations.

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