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

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His aim, he said, is to help drive Saudi away from its dependency on finance from the crude oil industry, which has historically been the country’s largest export but is undoubtedly playing a part in the climate change that is adversely affecting areas across the Middle East. .

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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Tellingly, the idea to cofound the studio came while Bordas and her partner were working together at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an experience where the paradoxical proximity and distance between the world of design and engineering was attenuated. Left: Tiffany Brown via Madame Architect ; Tiffany Brown with mentees from 400 Forward.

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Architecture Articles: Building Design

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Difference between carbon neutrality and net zero Mackintosh Building Glasgow School of Art RICS and YouGov survey 2022 Next generation of knowledge work: hybrid workplaces Data-Informed Design for the User Experience at Work The fluid, sustainable future of retail Designing for Extra Care: What Can Covid Teach Us? Do We Need Libraries?

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Building Science, Climate Change and The Pretty Good House (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

It’s a very complicated topic, but the estimates for the contribution of the construction or the built environment are anywhere from 20 to 50 percent, most of them on the higher end. So as much as 50 percent of global warming agents are related to construction, either the manufacturer transportation, construction or operating emissions.

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Why after 20 years EBDI is still no success story

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We envision an efficient and coordinated transportation system that makes the Biotech Park more attractive to tenants, links the neighborhood to jobs, and protects residents from traffic and air pollution. The total redevelopment was estimated to cost near $2billion (2003). Casey Foundation to find a voice in the process.

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The Future of Cities: Back to Basics?

Community Architect

Instead, city leaders have to face health disparities, the digital divide that hobbles distant learning in disinvested neighborhoods, transportation inequities, look at food deserts with new urgency, and finally realize that the problems always compound in the same communities. All the way down to whose bodies got vaccinated.

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

Community Architect

Furthermore, even where technology is supposed to come to the rescue, for example at renewable energies and transportation, implementation is often numbingly slow. 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.

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