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Sustainability and liveability claims of Saudi 170-kilometre city are "naive" say experts

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My first feeling was that it's interesting because we need a shock in urban development to endorse this idea of compactness and everything being mixed-use," she said. This hyper-density would mean significantly fewer emissions from transport and less direct destruction of nature. C40 Cities' Chartier is less keen. "My

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

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Forty-four per cent of global GDP in cities is estimated to be at risk of disruption from nature loss. Higher-density urban development will free up land for agriculture and nature. It can also reduce urban sprawl, which destroys wildlife habitats and flora and fauna. It will benefit people, too.

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Liverpool Building News: Merseyside Architecture

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The Quarter will consist of spacious layouts, avant-garde designs and stylish fixtures and fittings, and as the UK’s first eco-living concept, Element developments promote a new eco-friendly way of living, incorporating sophisticated low-carbon smart technology to keep a focus on sustainability. miles) Albert Dock (0.3

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We're Off to See the Waltons

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And the most recent (though certainly not the last) step is FORMAT (the acronym somehow stands for "FOR Music, Art, and Technology"), a new music and arts festival that will take place on an airstrip in Bentonville this fall. The population is estimated to reach nearly 1 million by 2045. A postcard from the 1940s.

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Milan's L'Innesto development to provide net-zero social housing

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L'Innesto Milan is one of the winners of the Reinventing Cities global urban development competition , and Barreca & La Varra is aiming to make it the first zero-carbon example of Italy's "housing sociale". Read: Urban developments that "strive for zero carbon" to start on site in Milan, Paris, Reykjavik and Oslo.