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Reanimating a comatose goddess': Reconfiguring central Cape Town

… Cape Town, South Africa’s oldest city, and its third largest, has not lagged behind in inner-city … The 22-storey Naspers (now media24) tower on the Heerengracht did not long remain the …

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Transit oriented development in Copenhagen, Denmark: from the finger plan to Ørestad

Ørestad is Copenhagen’s linear new town being built over a 30year period around stations on an elevated, driverless mini-metro line. Copenhagen Metro’s construction was to be …

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The metropolis of tomorrow

… At the same time, however, we are struck by certain peculiarities in the disposition of the towers now before us. In the first place, no two of them rise in close juxtaposition to each other; …

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Sustainable urbanism: towards a framework for quality and optimal density?

… are now building more apartment towers than ever, but there has so far been insufficient innovation by developers to make high-quality housing. These new residential towers are not …

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Playground panopticism: Ring-around-the-children, a pocketful of women

… , central tower in … tower, while those that are watched cannot actually see the person watching them. With this structure, the very few can hold power over the many, because the tower …

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Retrofitting suburbia, updated edition: Urban design solutions for redesigning suburbs

Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, …