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juni 2015

Can we rise to the challenge?

By | Algemeen

Can we rise to the challenge to make our cities life-enhancing communities of discovery, creativity and innovation that are safe and healthy for humans and ecology? Has anthropocentrism in design encouraged a myopic and self-centered conception of our urban design and architecture? Urban spaces are inextricably linked to the environment of our planet and there is a compelling case for building new cities and retrofitting or expanding existing ones in ways that work in harmony with nature, by linking ecological and human systems. The city can become an ecosystem that embeds nature and people as equal partners to help rebalance…

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