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Assemble Papers
It's always refreshing to see a business that stands for optimism which is reflected in everything that Assemble Paper does.
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Facing Destruction: Entire City to Be Relocated 2 Miles Away
No hoax, it is happening - 20,000 occupants of Kiruna, Sweden, are being forced to pull up stakes and relocate their entire urban center to avoid having it fall off the face of the Earth.
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Kiruna: How to move a town two miles east
This spring work will begin to move Sweden's northernmost town two miles to the east. Over the next 20 years, 20,000 people will move into new homes, built around a new town centre, as a mine gradually swallows the old community. It's a vast and hugely complicated undertaking.
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Cities on frontline of climate change struggle
Half of the world's population now lives in cities - a proportion that's set to rise to two-thirds by 2050. Yet cities are vulnerable to the worst impacts of climate change precisely because their locations are fixed. As the UN's climate panel meets in Berlin, how are urban centres coping with the test?
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How America’s fourth-largest city can abandon its addiction to cars
In Houston, taking the bus is a measure of last resort. But that might not be the case for long
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From Watch Dogs to GTA V, why 'video games are going to reshape our cities'
The virtual cityscapes of Assassin’s Creed or Grand Theft Auto are astonishingly lifelike – and now they are changing how we plan real cities
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Rio’s Real-Life Slumdog Millionaires
Brazil’s efforts to clean up the favelas for the World Cup have led to a surprising development: Due to property laws, many slum residents now own some of the city’s best real estate.
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While Away Your Friday By Designing Your Own Fantasy Transit System
For would-be Transportation Czars who have grander ideas for the buses and trains in your town, Transitmix helps you draw a fantasy transit system for your city that's specific down to the block. And it's got a bunch of real-world features that can help you calculate everything from ridership to operating costs.
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What’s Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse
The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note of this phenomenon at least as early as the 1960s, it is only in recent years that social scientists have collected enough data to show how this happens pretty much every time we build new roads.
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Should you move to Detroit?
Detroit has had some votes of confidence lately. On Tuesday, Steve Case, co-founder of AOL and the chairman and chief executive of Revolution LLC, a Washington-based venture-capital firm, will kick-start his “Rise of the Rest” road trip in Detroit. He will announce a $100,000 prize for the winner of his pitch competition, before awarding a $100,000 prize to a company in each of these cities: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Nashville. Last month, J.P. Morgan Chase, the country’s biggest bank...
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A Gas Station Frank Lloyd Wright Designed 87 Years Ago Is Now Finished
In 1927, acclaimed architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a gas station for Buffalo, New York, envisioning a gleaming center of commerce and social interaction for the bustling industrial city. Almost 90 years later, the structure has finally been completed—in the lobby of an automobile museum.
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5,000 Residents Being Evicted from World’s Tallest Vertical Slum
A forced relocation is underway as thousands of squatters are moved by authorities out of their homes and the city of Caracas, some of whom have called the infamous half-finished Tower of David home for as long as seven years.
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Crisis in the Suburbs: One Man's Fight to Fix the American Dream
Engineer Charles Marohn worked his whole life trying to make his community better—until the day he realized he was ruining it
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A Good Way to Wreck a Local Economy: Build Casinos
Baltimore is a troubled city, as you know from The Wire. Like many troubled cities, Baltimore has turned to casino gambling as its solution. On August 26, a new Caesar’s casino will open on the site of an old chemical factory, a little more than 2 miles from the famous Inner Harbor and Camden Yards baseball stadium.
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Southeast could become an overdeveloped ‘megalopolis’ in the next half century
Giant urban sprawl could pave over thousands of acres of forest and agriculture, connecting Raleigh to Atlanta by 2060, if growth continues at its current pace, according to a newly released research paper from the U.S. Geological Survey.
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New dimension for digital cities
Can greed and wastefulness be removed from our future cities?
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A shiny, new World Cup city
If you're trying to create the perfect 21st-century city, it helps to start with a blank slate. Even if that slate is a sweltering strip of sand. That's essentially what the government of Qatar and its developers are trying with Lusail, an ambitious planned city on 28 square miles of waterfront desert along the Persian Gulf.
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Outrageous plan for $264 billion mega-city in Korea
TAKE that, Dubai! It may look like something out of Star Wars, but this is actually Korea’s latest tourism project, set to rival the extravagance on show in Dubai. At $264 billion, the ambitious plan would see the creation of a gigantic city on the islands of Yongyu-Muui in the port of Incheon, close to Incheon International Airport.
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America is rapidly aging in a country built for the young
Although we seldom think about them this way, most American communities as they exist today were built for the spry and mobile. We've constructed millions of multi-story, single-family homes where the master bedroom is on the second floor, where the lawn outside requires weekly upkeep, where the mailbox is a stroll away.
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Carless Cities
Could our cities adapt to become carless in the next twenty years?
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