Urb

Town Planning + Place Management

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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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ECO-BRUTALISM and how contemporary architecture (criticism) leads to the deadening of space

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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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Land Value Model, Copenhagen, Denmark

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