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22:21 EDT, 28 July 2021 As alarm about global warming has grown and urban development goals have shifted, replanting initiatives have sprouted in cities around the world From lettuces farmed on New York's skyline to thick corridors of trees occupying once desolate Colombian roadsides, green initiatives are running wild in cities around the world. At a time when coronavirus lockdowns have amplified the need for nature in urban areas, AFP has gathered images and footage of projects optimising precious city space. Replanting initiatives have sprouted up since the start of the 21st century as u...

From grey to green: world cities uprooting the urban jungle Issued on: 29/07/2021 - 04:16 As alarm about global warming has grown and urban development goals have shifted, replanting initiatives have sprouted in cities around the world ROSLAN RAHMAN AFP 8 min Paris (AFP) From lettuces farmed on New York's skyline to thick corridors of trees occupying once desolate Colombian roadsides, green initiatives are running wild in cities around the world. At a time when coronavirus lockdowns have amplified the need for nature in urban areas, AFP has gathere...

Jarrod Reedie The World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards has released its shortlist for 2021, celebrating some 200 buildings and landscapes created between 2019 and 2021. Being the world’s biggest architectural awards program, some of the entrants on show most certainly live up to the grand scale. A stylised urban landscape linking Abu Dhabi’s desert to its modern city grid; Heatherwick Studio's Singapore skyscraper, Eden’ China’s Culture Exhibition Centre featuring a sun and a moon pavilion; and a tourist development on a Persian Gulf island built to empower the local community, ar...

　　中国侨网7月8日电 据暨南大学网站消息，在庆祝中国共产党成立100周年之际，中共广东省委宣传部新命名23个广东省爱国主义教育基地(第九批)。暨南大学世界华侨华人文献馆(以下简称“世华馆”)榜上有名，是该校首次获此殊荣。此次命名后，广东省爱国主义教育基地总数达到140个。 　　1995年，经国务院侨务办公室批复，图书馆成立华侨华人文献信息中心；2016年，世华馆在中心的基础上正式揭牌。世华馆建筑面积约1800平方米，设置华侨华人、�...

It will last all day if you eat it really slowly! Wow. What an extraordinary creation. THIS is the epitome of world building in every sense. Dynamo