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Urban planning firm based in Dublin, Ireland. The focus in on fresh thinking on how to realise the economic potential of places and deliver viable town centres and urban cores; planning that creates and sustains places, streets, and communities.

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    “The Greenest Building May Actually Be a Neighborhood

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    Green building might be little more than a fringe hippie idea if not for certification. The...

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    Today, Saskia Sassen spoke at PICNIC in Amsterdam. Check out the video of her great talk, and how she respects the inherent complexity and incompleteness of cities.

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    “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
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    Artist Jon Rafman’s photo project The Nine Eyes of Google Street View, named after the nine lenses mounted on...

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    “A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.”
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