Ng unites the neighborhoods with the city via what he calls the Axial Platform. It embeds the Walmart Big Box type of shopping in a pedestrian-accessible park, which creates a central avenue to that acts to unite the neighborhood. He drew inspiration from Mies van der Rohe's project in Stuttgart, Germany, that worked to address housing differences. Photo 8 of 10 in A New Model for Suburbia by Skylar Bergl

A New Model for Suburbia

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Ng unites the neighborhoods with the city via what he calls the Axial Platform. It embeds the Walmart Big Box type of shopping in a pedestrian-accessible park, which creates a central avenue to that acts to unite the neighborhood. He drew inspiration from Mies van der Rohe's project in Stuttgart, Germany, that worked to address housing differences.