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As part of the process to update the Land Development Code (LDC), the City’s CodeNEXT team is releasing a series of "prescription papers" to provide a general idea about the direction the new code is taking. A total of four prescription papers will cover the following: the natural and built environment, affordability, mobility and fiscal health.
Visit http://www.reca.org/blog/post/reca-response-to-first-codenext-prescription-paper to view the full article online.
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Selling clear-water lakes to real estate developers is just a ripple on the surface of Fischmann's ambitions. He said he's working with students at MIT’s Sloan School of Management on a business model for building lagoons in public parks and is hatching plans to build "floating lagoons" on top of bodies of water that are currently unsuitable for swimming. His most audacious proposal is a system to cool an electric power plant and use the excess heat to power a desalination facility.
Visit http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-11/can-this-real-estate-gimmick-save-the-world to view the full article online.
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Sometimes a project truly deserves the often used adjective disruptive. The pop-up ShopWithMe is one of them. With it, Giorgio Borruso Design and the technology company WithMe are turning retail inside out and upside down. Unlike the concept stores flooding the market, ShopWithMe goes far beyond the "change" represented by seasonal collections and snazzy promotional events to present an entirely new paradigm in terms of technology, fluidity, and mobility. This is a prefabricated retail environment neither fixed in a geographÂical location nor dedicated to a particular brand. Both off-line and online shopping are offered there, too. Call ShopWithMe the ultimate smart store.
Visit http://www.interiordesign.net/slideshows/detail/9058-feature-across-the-spectrum/1/ to view the full article online.
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