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Minister of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Teten Masduki has lauded the successful transformation of a former red-light district ...

The proposed 44.8-hectare New Clark City Central Park was recognized for its sustainable and inclusive design as it recently won the SEMEC Gold Award in the 2022 Singapore Landscape Architecture Awards.

The proposed 44.8-hectare New Clark City Central Park has recently bagged the SEMEC Gold Award for the Analysis and Planning Category of the 2022 Singapore Landscape Architecture Awards. The award, which recognizes the New Clark City Central Park’s sustainable and inclusive design, was presented t

Seven organisations across various fields in Malaysia won at the GeoInnovation Award by Esri Malaysia, attesting that geospatial technology is increasing its effectiveness in solving real-world challenges.

Financial results for the AJ100 practice were published at the end of last year and cover a 12-month period up to 30 April 2021. The loss is the biggest

BDP was shortlisted for its collaboration to create six NHS Nightingale Hospitals, completed in record time at the start of the 2020 Covid-19 outbreak.

Knowledge keyboard_arrow_right Global Future Cities Programme: Collaborative efforts towards sustainable urbanisation Global Future Cities Programme managers Klas Groth and Naomi Hoogervorst discuss how UN-Habitat and the UK Built Environment Advisory Group are helping to achieve sustainable urbanisation in 19 cities across the globe. 16 March 2021 UN-Habitat’s Urban Lab has been the strategic and capacity building partner to the UK Prosperity Funds Global F...

Image credit: Jason Briscoe This year the UK’s Global Future Cities Programme celebrates its one-year anniversary. Through its work the programme has promoted sustainable and inclusive economic growth with transformative projects in three municipalities, City of Cape Town, eThekwini Municipality (Durban), and City of Johannesburg, on transportation and mobility, urban planning, resilience and data innovation in South Africa. In April 2020 the Programme expanded and adapted in response...

Copy The Un-Habitat or the United Nations agency for human settlements and sustainable urban development, whose primary focus is to deal with the challenges of rapid urbanization, has been developing innovative approaches in the urban design field, centered on the active participation of the community. ArchDaily has teamed up with UN-Habitat to bring you weekly news, article, and interviews that highlight this work, with content straight from the source, developed by our editors. Around 440 fas...