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Toulouse’s Infamous Mirail

About the powerful hold that a history of decline wields over a neighbourhood in Toulouse.
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Toulouse’s Infamous Mirail

About the powerful hold that a history of decline wields over a neighbourhood in Toulouse.
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IFLA World Congress 2019

The 56th IFLA World Congress will be held in Oslo
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IFLA World Congress 2019

The 56th IFLA World Congress will be held in Oslo
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Urban Land: Conference in Ulm

Mobility, quality of life, climate change. These and other aspects will be discussed at the Urban Land Conference No 1 on 26 September 2019 in Ulm.
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Urban Land: Conference in Ulm

Mobility, quality of life, climate change. These and other aspects will be discussed at the Urban Land Conference No 1 on 26 September 2019 in Ulm.
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Cities on the New Silk Road: Venice

Next stop in the New Silk Road series is Venice, Italy, the original start point of the ancient Silk Road
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Cities on the New Silk Road: Venice

Next stop in the New Silk Road series is Venice, Italy, the original start point of the ancient Silk Road
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How Chinese are China’s planned Cities?

Interview with Dieter Hassenpflug about China's culture of building
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How Chinese are China’s planned Cities?

Interview with Dieter Hassenpflug about China's culture of building
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Orla do Guaíba – Redesign of the Waterfront

"The project crystallized the natural vocation of the site"
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Orla do Guaíba – Redesign of the Waterfront

"The project crystallized the natural vocation of the site"
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Sankara’s Burkina Faso

From 1983 to 1987, the citizens of Burkina Faso planted ten million trees to keep back desertification
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Sankara’s Burkina Faso

From 1983 to 1987, the citizens of Burkina Faso planted ten million trees to keep back desertification
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Green lung around the Eiffel Tower

The London landscape architecture firm Gustafson Porter + Bowman has won the tender for the redesign of the grounds around the Eiffel Tower
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Green lung around the Eiffel Tower

The London landscape architecture firm Gustafson Porter + Bowman has won the tender for the redesign of the grounds around the Eiffel Tower
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Seonyudo Park: History revealed

South Korea’s pioneering post-industrial project: the Seonyudo Park
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Seonyudo Park: History revealed

South Korea’s pioneering post-industrial project: the Seonyudo Park
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New Prize For Landscape Architecture

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) announced that it will establish an international landscape architecture prize (“Prize”) to be conferred biennially.

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Just-in-Time Urbanism

Little-known outside of economics text books, just-in-time production has had countless affects on the modern urban landscape.

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We The Trees

Bringing together a community of artists, botanists, and philosophers, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain echoes the latest scientific research that sheds new light on trees.

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Zero Gravity: Apollo 11 and the new notion of space

The exhibition “Zero Gravity” with works on the theme of space and space missions can be seen from 23 July to 30 November 2019 at ERES Foundation in Munich.

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Central Park Public Domain in Sydney wins Good Design Award

Turf Design Studio wins the Australian Good Design Award in the category Best in Class Architecture & Urban Design with the design for the Central Park Public Domain.

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South London’s Super-Diverse Streets

As a project from LSE Cities has shown, the value of “super-diverse streets” is often wilfully overlooked by the municipal authorities tasked with planning their future.

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projects

Unisinos Campus

Espaço Unisinos is a new campus in Porto Alegre. Its refreshingly modern architectural image and composition of open spaces has transformed the urban dynamics of the residential area where it was integrated.

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Creating a Moscow Agora

Khokhlovka Square by Strelka KB and the studio Djao-Rakitine is a popular public space, open and accessible to everyone – and the first amphitheater in Moscow.

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Freespace for All Senses

The German landscape architecture office “Planergruppe Oberhausen” in cooperation with B.A.S. Kopperschmidt & Moczalla realized the innovative open space project “Landscape Therapeutic Park” in the forests of the German city of Brilon.

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Landscapes to the Max

Built in a socially stratified area, the park La Mexicana is a manifesto of the dynamic and integrated approach proposed by the CDMX Resilience Office.

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Florida gets its very own ‘Central Park’

In 2017 the global design firm Sasaki was hired by the Bonnet Springs Park Board to design a “central park” for the City of Lakeland. The outcome is an exciting design and, most of all, a big promise.

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Urban History of Amsterdam’s RoXY Nightclub

Open from 1987-1999, Amsterdam’s RoXY nightclub emerged at the genesis of rave culture, enjoying success during a crucial turning point in the socio-economic organisation of the inner city.

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USA Today’s “The City” podcast

Over a series of 10 episodes, USA Today’s “The City” podcast unpacks the complex web of racial and class injustices which have ensured that waste disposal in America has always tended to impact more on people of colour.

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The Guru in Urbanism

The lecture by Jan Gehl at the Amsterdam Public Library on March 15 was part of public series jointly organized by the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture and the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture (ARCAM).

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Gentrification and the AIDS epidemic

Sarah Schulman’s book The Gentrification of the Mind explores the wide reaching impact of the AIDS epidemic on New York and American culture more generally

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Plant Landscape in the City

For the eighth time, the Arketips Association and the district council of the north Italian City of Bergamo organized the international event i maestri del paesaggio – Masters of Landscape. This year’s event dealt with the very basis of each and every landscape: plants.

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This land is our land

The art works of Cuban artist Ana Mendieta are about identity, home and nature. From 20 April to 22 July 2018, the Gropius Building in Berlin is showing a selection of her works.

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Competitions

Hammersmith Highline, London: Two first prizes

The offices bauchplan and Richard Jackson are convincing in competition with their ideas to upgrade a disused viaduct in London’s Hammersmith district.

We The Trees – Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

July 12 - November 10, 2019
261, Boulevard Raspail 75014 Paris
www.fondationcartier.com
IFLA World Congress 2019: Common Ground

18-20 September 2019
Oslo, Norway
www.ifla2019.com
Outdoor Matters

8 February – 1 September 2019
National Museum – Architecture, Oslo
www.nasjonalmuseet.no
International Architecture Master Class

September 15 to 29, 2019
Sydney, Australia
www.ozetecture.org
Urban Land Conference

26. September 2019
Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm, Germany
www.urbanes.land/conference/
Sardinia 2019, 17th International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium

September 30 to October 04, 2019
Forte Village, Cagliari, Italy
www.sardiniasymposium.it

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