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Featured Stories

Reports, articles and essays from our global network of independent journalists, designers and thinkers covering today’s most intelligent solutions to our world’s most pressing problems. | August 31, 2010.


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HafenCity
A CASE STUDY ON FUTURE-ADAPTIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
BY AMANDA REED

Check out this extensively illustrated visual case-study of HafenCity's future-adaptive, flood resilient urban design...


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To Protect, Renew, and Re-Tool
AN INTERVIEW WITH KRISTINA HILL ON MANAGING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
BY AMANDA REED

Amanda shares a recent interview published in the American Society of Landscape Architects' online publication The Dirt in which Kristina Hill, PhD, Affiliate ASLA, discusses design strategies for managing the effects of climate change...


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Copenhagen - Malmö Loop City
BY ALEX STEFFEN

Alex finds the Bjarke Ingels Group's proposed new rail line to link Copenhagen and Malmö and their surrounding cities into a binational metropolitan area a compelling idea...


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Demographic Instability, PeakX, Constraint-Storming and Other Short Items
BY ALEX STEFFEN

Alex shares an assortment of links related to the consequences of approaching peak population, as well as the need to reconceptualize resource 'peaks' themselves, and the benefits of telecommuting en route to work...


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