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Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States
In more and more of the country Amazon acts like an employer in a company town, sucking up whole communities and shaping public goods and services to fit its profit-making needs.
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- July 25, 2021
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Prince Charles’ experimental city is proving critics wrong
Poundbury has attracted scathing reviews from the moment construction began but something big is happening here recently.
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I´ll tell you why the people that live in Poundbury like it shall I, there are no blacks or paki´s living there thats why the people that live there like it. If you ever get the chance to go there for some reason you will see for yourself its a town with only white middle class people living there ... View More
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Architect Alejandro Echeverri was approached by the mayor of Medellin, one of the most dangerous cities in the world, to revitalize the city. He focused on building in the poorest areas first to bring... View More
Medellin’s Architectural Renaissance
A renaissance through architecture has been unfolding throughout the past several years in Colombia’s second largest city – Medellin. Home to 3.5...
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Opinion | The Simplest Tool for Improving Cities Is Also Free
The pandemic taught us that time might be our most valuable resource for building the environments we want.
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Olympic stadiums can be costly and wasteful—so why not just have one?
The argument for a permanent Olympic City | Popular Science
Olympic stadiums can be costly and wasteful. Some have argued for a single, more sustainable, location that can be used year after year.
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Urban Displacement Project Releases Housing Precarity Risk Model
The Urban Displacement Project at the University of California at Berkeley has released its Housing Precarity Risk Model (HPRM) Dashboard, which maps neighborhood-level risk of eviction and low-income...
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A starchitect atones: "While aid agencies erected costly prefab concrete and iron housing Yasmeen Lari worked with dispossessed families, teaching them how to rebuild their homes, in a safer way, usin... View More
The barefoot architect: ‘I was a starchitect for 36 years. Now I’m atoning’
She created gilded monuments to corporate excess. But now Yasmeen Lari is building mud huts for the poor. As she wins the Jane Drew prize, Pakistan’s first female architect looks back on an extraordin...
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How to build a small town in Texas
Of all the questions I get on Twitter the most common is this: “How do you build a town?” We know how it used to be done, but these last two centuries we have forgotten how to do it.
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New proposal would bring 24-hour nightlife districts to New York City
Soon in New York, you might not even have to fight for your right to party. An idea hatched by the Office of Nightlife could lead to 24-hour party and entertainment areas.
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