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Taller Capital practises "retroactive infrastructure" for linear park in Mexico

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Twenty metres wide, the structure allows for easy pedestrian use and features recreation areas strewn about its length for use by the local community, and the studio estimates it will serve more than 20,000 individuals who live alongside it. Taller Capital has created a linear park in a Mexican boulevard The project saw the renovation of 2.1

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Page Southerland Page integrates "past and future" at Texas Capitol Complex

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"We hope this project will enhance urban spaces in the city, contributing to the State of Texas' and Austin's unique, vibrant identity." The Texas Capitol Complex was designed by Page Southerland Page Phase 1 – which is estimated as a $600 million investment – opened in 2022.

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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.

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Copenhagen's industrial harbour is being developed into a recreational hub

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Next year, the harbour and its many urban projects will play a central role when the UIA World Congress of Architects takes place from 2 to 6 July. When we invite 10,000 international guests to Copenhagen for the World Congress next summer, it is also to showcase the urban development and our unique harbour sites.

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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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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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The Chesapeake Bay - A Complex Eco-System Explained

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Beavers damming streams and creating wetlands, a bounty of huge oysters, 100' schooners transporting the lumber that came from swampy woodlands being converted into tobacco farms, finally massive sprawly shoreline development and a huge load of sediment reshaping the waterway in many ways.