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The Chesapeake Bay - A Complex Eco-System Explained

Community Architect

Increasing floods graph (NOAA) Add culture and urban development. In order to restore the productivity of both the land and water, it is necessary to increase the wetness of the land by redesigning its capacity for denitrification. A decisive battle in the Revolutionary War was fought here.

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Urban Terrarium: Only Architect-Landscape Architect Collaboration Can Truly Delivery Biodiversity

Architizer

It also casts in sharp relief a historic oversight on the part of everyone involved in urban development and the built environment. Although estimates vary widely, the metropolitan region is now believed to be home to more than 17 million people, making this an extreme primate city — far dwarfing all others in the country.

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Liverpool Building News: Merseyside Architecture

e-architect

Ashwin Karjatkar’s is currently working on the largest urban development project in Scandinavia – RiverCity Gothenburg. New Bird Street Liverpool buildings: The building looks to restore the urban edge to the surrounding streets and sets up a perimeter block with an internal courtyard.