Explore - Urban Planning

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   Structured Play

   Two of the country’s most creative and thoughtful playground designers—architect Richard Dattner and landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg—spent countless hours observing how...

   written by: Deborah Bishop

   01.01.09

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   Looks Like We're Getting That Train

   The high speed rail system in France, called the TGV, has revolutionized travel within the country. Now it's easy to pop between Avignon and Paris in under 3 hours (a distance that used to be a 6-7...

   written by: Laure Joliet

   11.10.08

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   Building Sustainable Communities Exhibit

   An inquisitive exhibit recently extended through January 2009 at the Danish Architecture Center asks “What if architecture could change the world?” Building Sustainable Communities ...

   written by: Miyoko Ohtake

   10.15.08

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   Affordable Housing for China

   Over a million people have moved to Guangzhou in the past eight years, making the city's population nearly ten million today. This urbanization is the trend of cities worldwide; it makes all the...

   written by: Jamie Waugh

   10.01.08

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   Floating Pool

   There was once a steel-decked river barge, decommissioned and idle in Morgan City, Louisiana. Lonely and unused, it was purchased by the Neptune Foundation, a not-for-profit that constructs movable...

   written by: Jamie Waugh

   09.24.08

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