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Urban Growth Strategies: Homes & Jobs for 2045

SW Oregon Architect

Beth Goodman of ECOnorthwest explains the City's role in housing development. The State of Oregon requires municipalities to provide enough buildable land within their urban growth boundaries to accommodate estimated housing needs for 20 years. I plan to attend the full series of Housing and Development Working Group meetings.

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BIG and Samoo unveil design for "flood-proof" floating city Oceanix Busan

Deezen

Oceanix Busan will be a first-of-its-kind floating development in South Korea. It says Oceanix Busan – which expands urban development into the ocean with habitation built on floating platforms – is sustainable, resilient and flood-proof. The development will be located in Busan North Port and the first phase will cover 6.3

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"By focusing so much on carbon reduction we are neglecting other areas where our industry causes harm"

Deezen

Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, some organisations in the construction industry have advocated deploying all our efforts into implementing guidance, targets, and calculation tools to allow us to achieve net zero by 2050. Forty-four per cent of global GDP in cities is estimated to be at risk of disruption from nature loss.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

BD+C

MFPRO+ Blog Mixed-Use Affordable Housing Senior Living Design Apartments Designers Architects New Project Portfolios A wave of residential projects rising across the country is meeting an insatiable demand, given the estimated shortage of 7.3 Sustainable Senior Living Construction is well under way in Yonkers, N.Y.,

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The Chesapeake Bay - A Complex Eco-System Explained

Community Architect

Increasing floods graph (NOAA) Add culture and urban development. Bridging between climate scientists, economists, biologists, hydrologists and cultural anthropologists remains a challenge that the event about which I am reporting took on. A decisive battle in the Revolutionary War was fought here.

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Chao Phraya Sky Park, Bangkok

e-architect

By merging two juxtaposed sides of Bangkok with parks on both ends, CPSP demonstrates the importance of much-need public green space and walkable areas, developed through low carbon-emission construction from adaptive reuse, thus contributing to the physical and mental health of citizens. Between the right of way of 8.5

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Competitions: 2022 Jiaxing Rainbow Vegetable Garden Cartoon Vegetables Characters Design Competition

Bustler

In order to enrich the publicity of Jiaxing Rainbow Vegetable Garden’s image as well as to raise Jiaxing Rainbow Vegetable Garden’s popularity and influence, 2022 Jiaxing Rainbow Vegetable Garden Cartoon Vegetables Characters Design Competition is held by Jiaxing Economic & Technological Development Zone Garden Municipal Construction Co.,

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