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Saudi Arabia lowers predicted number of residents at The Line by 2030

Deezen

The Line mega-city, which is the flagship development for Saudi Arabia's Neom project, will allegedly house fewer than 300,000 people by 2030, down from an original goal of 1.5 When the project was introduced, estimates for how many people would live in the mega city in northwestern Saudi Arabia by 2030 ranged from one million people to 1.5

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Urban Growth Strategies: Homes & Jobs for 2045

SW Oregon Architect

I participated this past Thursday in the kickoff meeting for the City of Eugene’s Urban Growth Strategies project. They are the foundation upon which any stable, livable community is built. 1) Additionally, we reviewed the various statewide mandates related to urban growth, as well as recent policy work directed by the City Council.

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NEOM: Will the Multi-Billion Dollar Mega-City Ever Come to Life? 

Architizer

Having been dubbed the next step in humanity’s evolution, it is no surprise that about $500 billion worth of funding has already been poured into developing the online presence of the new city-state NEOM. The unique city promises to house all essential amenities less than a five-minute walk away for each of its residents.

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The World’s Tallest Building Should Never Have Been Built. Change My Mind.

Architizer

Its unique stepped form, which seems to glide from its broad Y-shaped foundation into a single star-like point, echoes both the Great Mosque of Samarra and Frank Lloyd Wright’s unrealized design for a mile-high skyscraper, “The Illinois,” bringing East and West together in an expression of Islamic modernism. Register here !

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How climate, pandemic, and war shape the "future proofing" of buildings, cities and regions

Community Architect

An estimated 84 million people were displaced in mid 2021, now with the war in Europe war-displaced Ukrainians swell the global ranks of displaced people to new records. Domestic and general firearm violence is up across the country, most visibly in larger cities; all attempts of curbing the rampant violence have not yielded a result yet.

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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

Bustler

These are the 2023 finalists and their proposals: Isabel Abascal: “Mother Architecture: Shaping Birth” Isabel Abascal is a Mexico City–based architect and writer. Abascal studied architecture at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, the Technische Universität in Berlin, and at the Vastu Shilpa Foundation in Ahmedabad, under Balkrishna Doshi.

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The Future of Cities: Back to Basics?

Community Architect

But the future remains shrouded in doubt and uncertainty, the future of cities included. Manhattan, New York City (Photo: Philipsen) Only the broadest terms seem clear: The future won't be like the past, nor will it be how we imagined it before the pandemic. As a result crime went up in many big cities across the nation.

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