Tag: cities
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Broadgate Exchange House
AIA Twenty-Five Year Award: Broadgate Exchange House Architect, May 2015 The Big Bang, at least the British version of it, took place on Oct. 27, 1986, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher deregulated the London stock market. Very swiftly after that, the City of London morphed from an insular old-boys club into a modern, global financial center.…
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Free-Range Kids & the Law
The Murky Law on Free-Range Kids CityLab, April 17, 2015 On April 12, it happened again: Rafi and Dvora Meitiv, the “free-range kids” of Silver Spring, Maryland, were picked up and detained by police. The siblings, aged 10 and six, were playing unsupervised in their neighborhood when a man walking his dog spotted them and…
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Malls Aren’t Dying
Shopping Malls Aren’t Actually Dying CityLab, March 25, 2015 On March 5, the Miami Herald revealed a new plan to build a 200-acre mega-mall in the suburbs of Miami, complete with an attached hotel and condos, a sea-lion show, and an artificial ski slope. It would be the largest shopping mall in the United States,…
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College Park, College Town?
The Plan to Make College Park a College Town Washingtonian, March 2015 US Route 1 inside the Beltway in Maryland is no crummier than the turnpikes outside Amherst, Massachusetts; Bloomington, Indiana; or any other town that hosts a major state university. A traveler headed south through College Park takes in a view of Taco Bell,…
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Social Design’s Rise & Fall
One Mayor’s Downfall Killed the Design Project That Could’ve Changed Everything Next City, Feb. 23, 2015 On June 29, 2014, the four city staffers who made up the San Diego Civic Innovation Lab were hard at work all around the city, never mind that it was a Sunday. Ilisa Goldman was in Encanto, hurrying along…
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