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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...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Heralded as Chinas oldest woven-arch timber bridge, the Rulong ( "like a dragon ") Bridge was constructed during the Ming dynasty in 1625 and renovated between 1821 and 1859 during the Qing... view more  Credit: Ronald G. Knapp, 2019. The School of Architecture at Oxford Brookes Univ ersity has started a £5 million grant-giving programme, to improve the documentation of endangered wooden architecture throughout the world and make records freely available online. The En...

For years, analysts have disputed the extent of climate change’s role in conflict. But the nature of climate risks can stifle those looking to

The Top 5 Posts of December 2020 Approximately 200,000 women in the U.S. are incarcerated—a nearly 800 percent increase over the past forty years. An often overlooked aspect of the increasing rates of women’s incarceration is its impact on women’s sexual and reproductive health needs. In our top post this month, the Maternal Health Initiative’s Hannah Chosid writes about the overlooked needs and barriers to incarcerated women’s reproductive autonomy. Sara Matthews continues the conver...

Who Pays the Bill for Plastic Waste? China’s 2018 National Sword Policy ended the country’s role as the recycling bin for the world’s post-consumer plastic scrap and threw global recycling markets into disarray. Reeling on the other side of the globe, American cities were forced to store, incinerate, or throw collected recyclables into landfills. Faced with a rapidly diminishing landfill capacity, China is consolidating and formalizing its domestic recycling industry, an expensive and dau...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Global Digital Twin Technology Market (2020 to 2024) - Size & Forecast with Impact Analysis of COVID-19 - ResearchAndMarkets.com December 24, 2020 GMT DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 24, 2020-- This report provides an in-depth analysis of the global digital twin technology market by value, by end-user, by region, etc. The report provides a detailed regional analysis of the digital twin technology market, ...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Global HVAC Controls Market Report 2020-2025: Consolidating Trend of Smart Homes, Accelerated Further by COVID-19 - ResearchAndMarkets.com December 23, 2020 GMT DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 23, 2020-- ADVERTISEMENT The global HVAC controls market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 10.5% from 2020 to 2025, reaching USD 24.4 billion by 2025 from USD 14.8 billion in 2020. The demand for HVAC equipment is in...

In the northwest of saudi arabia right now its a desert landscape but the plan is to turn it into a futuristic commercial and super high take up by 25th $25.00 the cost of the development is about $500000000000.00 thats a lot of money and plant cities are up and coming all over the world including in africa. lagos is home to more than 20000000 people its one of the worlds largest cities overfilled and chaotic its nigerias economic hub but its not the capital thats a blue jacket with around 30000...

A state new world poverty many of those coming to cities wont be able to afford. well with about half a minute left of any alternatives to those planning cities those small cities especially for africa. definitely so i think you know those where as you noted urbanizing enter a very rapid rate and i think harnessing the potential of urbanization and managing it well and that sort of getting ahead of the current thats planning for the cities that are to come many of our biggest cities are the ones...

A lack of empirical data because many of these cities are yet to be completed or even be started there and theyre sort of conceived in plans but if we take sort of examples from the rest of the world along which these cities are designed as you point out very correctly you know particularly since theres this private sector push the private sector those who want to be able to make a healthy return on their investment and so we have state prices are are priced accordingly and in addition a lot of ...