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The Turkish Council of State has ordered three luxury apartment blocks to be bulldozed amid widespread outrage. But will it have any impact on the country’s unstoppable, and often unlawful, construction boom?

Next-Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works – (Island Press, 2014) Synergy. A simple word that is commonly used in the world today. A world that keeps us to overcome physical distances, and facilitates the collaboration between different fields and sectors through new technologies. But is it truly being utilized? In her newest book, Next-Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial …

  Ryan Gravel, a senior urban designer with Perkins+Will who has helped to lead the design of the Atlanta BeltLine, spoke at an event hosted by the Centre for City Ecology and Toronto Park People this week. Ryan shared the beginnings of the Atlanta BeltLine — how his year abroad in Paris inspired him to develop a proposal …

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The looming affordable housing crisis will likely be the biggest issue facing our cities in 2014. A convergence of cataclysmic real estate prices, a development slowdown, and a weak job market are squeezing low-income residents out of urban areas. But all is not dire: I found seven new projects that are bright spots in the U.S.'s affordable housing future.

Officials in New York City are moving ahead with a controversial plan to raise money for its financially strained public-housing system by building market-rate apartments in the backyards of project tenants.

In a week defined by a powerful story about poverty and homelessness in New York, a bit of a bright spot: The City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development chose a scheme for a truly massive affordable housing development in Queens--all told, the development it's part of will add a whopping 5,000 units to the neighborhood.

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