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Who Owns the City? - How David won Against Goliath in Downtown Columbia

Community Architect Daily

In the alternative universe of this story, each of the familiar roles in city governance is played by a private entity: Instead of a city council there is a board of directors. But this city is not governed by a city charter but by the bylaws of a giant home-owners association (HOA). million square feet of of office space, 1.25

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Discretionary Permitting: What Homeowners Need to Know

Santa Cruz Architect

The discretionary permitting process is often used by local governments to ensure that proposed land uses are compatible with existing land uses, and that they do not pose an undue risk to public health, safety, or welfare. In these cases, homeowners will typically need to apply for a discretionary land use permit from their local government.

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Towers instead of Pavilions: An entirely different Inner Harbor

Community Architect Daily

The design breaks the current 50' height limit by a factor of 6 or more and introduces residential use to zoning regulations that allow only public and commercial uses. The full weight of city government is ready to make this a reality. The proposals also is much more drastic than the never enacted Inner Harbor 2.0

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Competitions: Open Call: International Competition for Conceptual Design of the Greenway around Xili Lake (Phase I)

Bustler

In Shenzhen Municipal Government Work Report (2022), it clearly states that Shenzhen will build a first-class livable city, construct a park city, implement the "Mountain-Sea-City Connection Plan", and connect the urban ecological structure of "one ridge, one belt and twenty corridors".

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Ten postgraduate architecture projects from Monash University

Deezen

As practitioners, the faculty engages with the urban and suburban, local, regional and global, with government, industry and civil society. The brief was to create a commercial-scale vineyard and winery with a focus on minimal intervention winemaking. We prototype urban futures in the here and now. Student: Gabriella Alfano.

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Non-Architectural Challenges Architects Face When Converting Offices into Housing

Architizer

COVID-19 has left many office buildings half-empty in city downtowns across the United States, and as vacancies rise, commercial property values drop. Banks, city governments and property management companies fear the severity of the situation and its potentially dismal economic consequences. Difficulties don’t end here.

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Beauty, Ma’am, if you can keep it

Architecture Here and There

Here, briefly, is how it happened: In 1828, the erection of the Arcade sparked a commercial boom, luring shops from the east side of the river to the west side, transforming what had been a residential district since the early 1700s into a new commercial district, which by the 1890s was among the liveliest in the nation.

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