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China Loosens One-Child Policy | Planetizen: The Urban Planning, Design, and Developmen... - 0 views
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The Communist Party announced changes to their one-child policy to allow urban couple to have two children is both parents are only-children. China's population is aging rapidly and they face looming labor shortages before they can get a firm foothold on prosperity.
What Is a Place Without the People? - 0 views
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human infrastructure essential to successful urban places.
As More Move To Cities, A New Take On Urban Design : NPR - 0 views
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By the year 2050, some 7 billion people will be living in cities. As many people who live on the planet today will be city dwellers just 38 years from now. Two years ago, for the first time in human history, over 50 percent of the population of the world now lives in cities, and that trend is accelerating. Every month, 1 million people in the world move to a city. If we don't get cities right, we're kind of - don't have a very bright future as humankind.
Screens: Coming to a City Block Near You - 0 views
Global Insurance Firms offer Resiliency Tools to Climate Risk Cities | Planetizen: The ... - 0 views
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A report aims to find a common global method for evaluating and addressing climate risk in response to the increasing frequency of catastrophic storms to use by cities in their redevelopment processes.
Downtown L.A. Has Arrived, Believe It or Not « Zócalo Public Square - 0 views
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So how can downtown activate spaces like the plaza-and Grand Park? ... park designers knew they'd have to rely on programming to get people in for the first time
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S.F.'s uncommon areas: Plazas created from scraps of urban land - 1 views
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I love this quote with "city" replaced by "museum": Yet the aspirations of a [museum] can also be measured in smaller scraps of land - the remnant spaces that often are blighted or ignored, but with imaginative design and care have the potential to be destinations.
http://cdn.guggenheim.org/BMW/100_Urban_Trends_1106_3MB.pdf - 0 views
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We have identified and explored many of these trends through our CAMLF work.
The City Of The Future Is Here - 0 views
The Orlando Shooting and the Securitization of Urban Public Spaces - CityLab - 2 views
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I felt obligated to put this here. Very insightful read. In the absence of meaningful gun reform, it isn't hard to imagine public spaces becoming more rigid, enclosed, and surveilled. That's a problem.
Sydney Sidetracks - ABC Online - 0 views
Jake Barton (jake_barton) on Twitter - 0 views
In Austria, virtual library contained in public QR code stickers | Springwise - 0 views
8 Unexpected Ways Technology Will Change The World By 2020 | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 0 views
A look at floating cities - 0 views
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The text of this blog is junk, but the pictures are food for thought.
Swapping Parking for Public Space on Irving: Merchants May Have Warmed Up - 0 views
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owners of businesses that front the small chunk of parking spaces that would be replaced with the bulb-outs might gain as their street becomes more attractive
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