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City and Regional Planning Can You Hear the Character of a City?
Over the years, in different cities, sometimes in the middle of a walk, sometimes on the way back home, and sometimes simply because I could…
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child Public Magnet as a Children’s Playground: Wired Scape
We’ve moved on to another project review piece; this time our focus is not a school building, but a play landscape embedded right in the…
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EDITOR'S PICK Villa Garden Trees: 21 Effective Options and a Practical Guide to Using Them
What really makes a magnificent villa look beautiful is, first and foremost, its landscape design. People often choose to live in villas or detached houses…
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child The Vanishing of Play Between Concrete
We’re wedged between enormous slabs of concrete. Between facades that are tall, glossy, perfectly smooth… Even the sound of children sometimes disappears without an echo—because…
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EDITOR'S PICK The Gardens of Al-Andalus: Why Would a Civilization That Knows It Will Lose Still Build Gardens?
After a long time, one evening—quite suddenly—I opened Memories of the Alhambra again, a Korean series I had watched before and loved. But this time,…
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Bright Ideas Designing for the Majority: Rebuilding a City’s Character
In the world of urban planning and design—especially in the minds of mayors—there is often a recurring illusion:…
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EDITOR'S PICK Why Isn’t It Raining in Turkey? What Happens If Reservoirs Run Out of Water?
In recent years, Turkey has been facing a worrying period of drought that has drifted away from the rainfall patterns many of us were used…
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Design Trends Mycelium Composite: A New Sustainable Material in Architecture
Spot: Mycelium composites are a family of materials that doesn’t fit into the easy shortcut of “everything natural is good.” In the right place they…
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child Reading the City from 95 cm
We often see the city “from above.” From maps, plans, screens… And then from within life itself: from behind the steering wheel, from the middle…
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Bright Ideas Can Children’s Playgrounds Be Used Year-Round? A Climate-Responsive Design Guide
Have you ever noticed how playgrounds in cities are usually lively only in spring or on mild summer days, yet turn into abandoned spaces in…
