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...And in the early phases, the cost of materials can seem exorbitant....
...“I think health and resilience will become part of the design of cities generally,” he says....
...Steven Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, says this “unlimited pass-through deduction”, as it is known, is a “heads I win, tails I win too” scenario for investors in hedge...
...I do wonder whether we’re in the supernova phase of dollar supremacy — a star burning brightest when it is exploding....
...His mission, he says, is to create the world’s first 21st-century urban district. “People ask me, ‘are you surprised by the level of controversy?’ I actually am not,” he says....
...The lethal phase was the wind before the rain....
...The Potomac waterfront was “basically an area waiting for urban renewal”, says Hill. But how will it compete with some of the most desirable — and expensive — property in the US?...
...“I am the product of a form of brutality of history, I broke in because France was unhappy and worried,” he told the press in February....
...It began in the late 1980s when the then government targeted financial services as a catalyst for job creation and urban renewal....
...The vision is for a pair of linked, mixed-use “urban villages”, with differing characters: one intentionally quieter and more rural in outlook; the other more urban in scale and use, with a new town square...
...“I lived in the area as a child and there were many small houses …but it wasn’t such a nice neighbourhood so I don’t think that there are many people who believe it should have been preserved,” says Onishi...
...Urban Infrastructure The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) has been an important instrument for refocusing the attention of the State governments on the importance of urban infrastructure...
...A consortium led by Lend Lease, the Australian property group, is poised to win more than £5bn ($9.6bn) of development work on the London 2012 Olympic Village and the adjoining Stratford City urban renewal...
...What we would like to achieve is to restore living spaces in the old city, move detrimental trade [workshops] out and set in motion a major urban renewal.”...
...This may sound impressive but the need for a more urgent and systematic approach to urban renewal is undeniable....
...The city’s signifier has survived but in the process of renewal, architecture has proved powerless and space has been reduced to the superficiality of the digital screen....
...The statistics quoted for Barcelona cover 1987-1992, when the international economy first crashed into recession then climbed back up towards boom time, and coincide with an urban renewal programme that...
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