Some Californian cities to lose zoning powers in two days
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Why Copenhagen put a ski slope on a power plant
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Megacities: Reality or fiction? Architecture in sci-fi.
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Your city is full of fake buildings, here's why
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Inside one of Japan's tiniest houses
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This video tells the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, its design, construction, life, and ultimate demise
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The Third Place
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Why India doesn’t build skyscrapers
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Is Helsinki city centre's new neighbourhood, Wood City, the future of building? Developers are increasingly swapping out concrete and steel in favour of wood.
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Gothenburg is on a $100bn building spree
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The real reason Egypt is moving its capital away from Cairo
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Why Chicago's skyline is insanely well designed
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Amsterdam is changing
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Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever - The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong
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Why Paris looks weird
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Inside Toronto's skyscraper boom
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How Japan built cities where you could send your toddler on an errand
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Why Barcelona looks weird
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Suburbia is subsidized - [Strong Towns Ep7]
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Why everywhere in the US is starting to look the same
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The bewildering architecture of indoor cities
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Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row is half empty
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For centuries, indigenous groups in north-east India have crafted intricate bridges from living fig trees. Now this ancient skill is making its way to European cities.
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Copenhagen is great… but it’s not Amsterdam
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Why Britain's newbuilds are so ugly
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Plans for $400-billion new city in the American desert unveiled
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The Scandinavian way to zero-carbon construction – cities like Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen are working to clean up one of the world's most high-emission industries
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You can help rebuild Notre Dame by sponsoring a statue
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Plans for an artificial island to house 35,000 people and protect the port of Copenhagen from rising sea levels have been approved by Danish MPs
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Gothenburg's bold plan to be world's best rainy city – it rains nearly 40% of the time in the Swedish city, so why not try to make the most of it?
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Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties
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Cycling through the streets of Amsterdam
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Swedish officials have joined Danish critics in registering concerns that an island-building plan, a signature test of Copenhagen's development model, could have risks
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Can Malmö's green points system help rewild London? Transformation of a Swedish shipyard into a leafy haven inspired London's 'urban greening factor' plan.
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How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century
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Transparent public toilets unveiled in Tokyo parks — but they also offer privacy
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The Tokyo Toilet - Public toilets in seventeen locations in Shibuya will be given unique redesigns by renowned designers and architects
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Amid protests, Norway's government has begun tearing down a landmark building adorned with giant murals by Pablo Picasso
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Paris has a plan to keep cars out after lockdown
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Five Picasso murals in Oslo are at the center of a major controversy – the murals are scheduled to be moved in the name of preservation
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Life imitates Hollywood: The rise of "movie-set urbanism"
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Copenhagen fashion week announces radical sustainability goals – hopes to transform it into a platform for advocacy with tough new environmental requirements for participants
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Castle in the clouds: Celebrating the eclectic, DIY designs of Ukraine's status symbol balconies
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The case for making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones
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How Berlin's Mietskaserne tenements became coveted urban housing
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Why Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years
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What’s behind the iconic floor plan of London
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Copenhagen-based firm Henning Larsen Architects has proposed a low-rise neighborhood south of central Copenhagen using all-timber construction
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Bjarke Ingels Group and WXY reimagine downtown Brooklyn
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Scandinavia is famous for its liveable cities, but a new university course in Nordic urban planning has raised questions about replicating the region's approach elsewhere
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