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Aecom Global Cities Institute, 2011
Phoenix has half the population of Hong Kong. but it’s built up area is five time bigger. Hong Kong there can be more than 30,000 people living per square kilometre, it’s over 10,000 in New York, nearly 5,000 in London, and close to 1,200 in Beijing. Hong Kong’s neighbour, Shenzen, has experience a population growth of over 3000% in the past 30 years. In the past 30 years…
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Monocle, 9 July 2010
What’s great about this now is that it’s a great model for other cities across the country, who are beginning to think that maybe high quality design of public space isn’t something that comes after the fact, but is maybe something that we invest in now, in order to spur significant economic development and ensure a higher quality of urban life.
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Monocle Flims, 30 June 2010
Danish architect Jan Gehl is improving quality of life in cities across the globe, taking the focus away from the car and putting it back on people, with pedestrianised streets and improved cycling infrastructure. Calling itself “consultants in urban quality”, Gehl Architects works to return a human scale to public spaces.