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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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White House announces new guidebook to funding office conversions nationwide

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Some cities like Washington, D.C. The announcement comes as vacancy rates have skyrocketed to 30-year highs, according to the White House. have seen rates as high as 50% in their CBD areas, prompting desperate appeals from politicians to enact wholesale changes to the built environment that’s backed up by funding from the federal level.

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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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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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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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Sustainable living is "not viable outside cities" says Hélène Chartier of C40 Cities

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Cities are the only sustainable way to house Earth's growing population – but the importance of protecting them from climate risks has been "totally underrated", according to Hélène Chartier of sustainable urbanism network C40 Cities. "In And this is not viable outside cities, let's be honest.". "To

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