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Old Town, New Ideas: An Innovative Approach To Chinese Old Town Regeneration - Urban Land Magazine Urban Renewal Design, Urban Regeneration Projects, Concept Plan, Urban Ideas, Urban Regeneration, Master Thesis, Signage System, Architecture Concept Diagram, Global City

In recent decades, SOM’s urban design work in China has created several successful old town redevelopment planning projects—such as Shanghai Xintiandi and Foshan Lingnan Tiandi—that integrate China’s ancient urban heritage into a new type of urban placemaking, one that celebrates local traditions while also creating immeasurable economic, social, and cultural value. Guangzhou’s Old Town is the latest of these.

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Six Freeway Removals That Changed Their Cities Forever - Neatorama Land Planning, Climate Adaptation, Green Infrastructure, Linear Park, Landscape Architecture Drawing, Nature City, Small Planet, Town Planning, City Planning

We've posted before about how modern cities are designed for automobiles, which is not necessarily a good thing. But what are you going to do about it? Believe it or not, there are cities who have taken the step of ripping out highways to reduce traffic and bring city life back to people. That doesn't mean those areas are free of streets, but without multi-lane highways, commuters take longer routes around where they once went straight through the neighborhoods. And the results are looking…

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#MapMondays – Mid-Manhattan Expressway — NYC URBANISM City Layout Design, City Of Fallen Angels, Architectural Illustration, City Layout, Grand Central Terminal, The Empire State Building, 42nd Street, New Amsterdam, Fallen Angels

Can you imagine a 100-foot tall, 160-foot wide expressway going straight through Midtown? Or even crazier, going through the 7th floor of the Empire State Building, just so Robert Moses and his Long Island buddies could quickly get from Long Island to New Jersey without having to worry about seeing

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Urban freeways began ripping through neighborhoods almost 70 years ago, often used for “urban renewal” as much as making it easier for people in the suburbs to drive to city centers. This article — with many before and after photos — looks at who was displaced by the Eisenhower Expressway slicing across the West Side of Chicago and what role it may have played in the area’s decline. — Damon Darlin, Editor, The Upshot Chicago Pictures, Young Johnny Depp, Chicago Neighborhoods, Chicago History, Chicago Photos, My Kind Of Town, Urban Renewal, Articles To Read, Architectural Drawings

Urban freeways began ripping through neighborhoods almost 70 years ago, often used for “urban renewal” as much as making it easier for people in the suburbs to drive to city centers. This article — with many before and after photos — looks at who was displaced by the Eisenhower Expressway slicing across the West Side of Chicago and what role it may have played in the area’s decline. — Damon Darlin, Editor, The Upshot

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