Use this interactive guide created by English Heritage to see how an urban environment can be improved. Roll over the red spots to see problem areas and click to reveal what can be done to eliminate them.
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Portland’s future and its past intersect at 28th Avenue and East Burnside.
A hundred feet or so from an old red brick trolley barn — long since converted to offices — workers are constructing an eye-catching, four-story condo with ground-floor retail.
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A thousand years ago, the northern and southern branches of the Silk Road converged at this oasis town near the western edge of the Taklamakan Desert. Traders from Delhi and Samarkand, wearied by frigid treks through the world’s most daunting mountain ranges, unloaded their pack horses here and sold saffron and lutes along the city’s cramped streets. Chinese traders, their camels laden with silk and porcelain, did the same.
The traders are now joined by tourists exploring the donkey-cart alleys and mud-and-straw buildings once window-shopped, then sacked, by Tamerlane and Genghis Khan.
Now, Kashgar is about to be sacked again.
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The Chicago Architecture Foundation is putting together a scale model of Chicago at its headquarters on Michigan Avenue in celebration of the centennial of the Burnham Plan.
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Much like every big city, Toronto has an aging array of Post WW-II high rise apartment buildings. When they were built in the 1960’s they were considered the height of modernity and dense urban design, but now as they are close to reaching the end of their intended lifespan, they are hugely inefficient and lack the qualities that make a sustainable, viable, urban community. There are no markets or grocery stores, inadequate public transportation, and little retail or local jobs. Rather than tear the towers down to start anew, the Mayor and City of Toronto want to use this vast resource of buildings and revitalize the city to become a more sustainable, walkable, greener community.
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Long overshadowed by mid-century architecture, modernist landscapes are gaining recognition, with help from the downturn.
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This animation presents MVRDVs vision for Greater Paris 2030. The project Paris Plus petit by MVRDV in collaboration with ACS and AAF is one of ten proposals by international architecture and urbanism teams to envision the future of the French capital and its vast agglomeration. The urban challenge has been commissioned by Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France.
Popularity: 15% [?]
For the past 3 years, a team of archaeologists, architects and computer scientists have been laserscanning the underground network of burial chambers, tunnels and chapels carved out of the soft, volcanic tufa rock of Lazio.
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Britain’s largest example of brutalist architecture is undergoing a multimillion-pound ‘regeneration’, overseen by English Heritage. It is in danger of losing what makes it special.
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Images are made by finding old photographs of places, printing them out, and then holding the print up in the modern day location that the original photograph was taken.
Popularity: 11% [?]