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UniverCities: The Integration of the Campus and its City

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Established as a micro-city, these self-contained environments are subject to their own rules and systems. They are designed as a deviation from the cities that host it to allow for the growth and proliferation of knowledge outside the status-quo. Image © James Ewing The university campus has a distinctive spatial typology.

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How Amsterdam Uses the Doughnut Economics Model to Create a Balanced Strategy for Both the People and the Environment

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Instead, the aim is to find a sweet sport, a way to balance the need to provide everyone with what they need to live a good life, a “social foundation” while limiting our impact on the environment, “the environmental ceiling.” With the help of Raworth, Amsterdam has downscaled this approach to the size of a city.

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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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Temporary Architecture in India: Marketplaces and Bazaars

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Image © Pranav Gandhi India's urbanscapes are characterized by a negotiation between the formal and the informal; permanence and impermanence. Structured amidst the concrete high-rises and planned neighborhoods, makeshift markets and bazaars form the core of city life.

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Japanese garden design informs Tokyo real estate office by Flooat

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Flooat set out to bring new value to the outdated building, creating a working environment that could be "cherished and used for a long time". Sofas and low tables were installed close to windows, allowing visitors to sit and take in the outside world in a relaxed environment. The photography is by Tomooki Kengaku.

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Plant trees in cities to curb deadly heatwaves says Arup's Dima Zogheib

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Cities should plant more trees to help prevent tens of thousands of annual deaths from extreme heat, Arup specialist Dima Zogheib tells Dezeen as part of our Designing for Disaster series. Above: Madrid was one of the heatwave-prone cities covered by the snapshot.

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Architects part of historic "social cleansing" of cities, says David Chipperfield at Design Doha 

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Moderated by DDF editorial director Jelena Trkulja, the panel looked at ways that design and architecture were having both a positive and negative impact on lifestyles, culture and the environment. We've done a sort of social cleansing on cities like London, Paris, Zurich. It's your environment, it's your surroundings." "I

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