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According to early design images leaked online, this rental tower in Toronto will have 580 suites with 580 bicycle parking spaces, but no car parking as it’s located right next to a subway station.
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前進城市。
(via urbanehood)
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The projected world’s tallest 20 skyscrapers in the year 2020
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預計至2020年時，全球前20名的高樓一覽。
“Manhattanization in the developing world entails much more than the cosmopolitan vertical aesthetic that awes so many commentators. It also means an intensified competition for shelter that favors the wealthy.”
Josh Leon imagines our vertical future.
「許多開發中國家在都市化的過程中，都容納更多都會垂直美學，令許多評論員稱羨，但也代表房地產競爭日益激烈，要吸引富人入住。」
Josh Leon想像人類的垂直未來。
Should cities have height restrictions?
As Eastern cities stretch higher and higher, the West has a bit of obsession with protecting skylines (read all about it on This Big City). Should we have height restrictions, or cities our cities be allowed to freely evolve?
城市應該設定樓高限制嗎？
許多東方城市樓房愈建愈高，西方卻熱衷於保護天際線原貌（相關話題請見《城事》），城市是否該設有樓高限制，或是讓大家恣意發展？
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Should we just keep building upwards? Read about our vertical future on This Big City.
建築應不斷向上延伸嗎？人類的垂直未來話題請見《城事》。
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London’s 30 St Mary Axe, or the Gherkin as it is affectionately known, creeps into view down one of east London’s side streets.
By Joe Peach
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As a 610 metre tall twisted metal lattice, China’s Guangzhou TV Tower is a frighteningly - and unsurprisingly - complex building. Each of its 1,104 metal joints are different, and its foundation contains 600 electronic sensors embedded into it to monitor movement. Despite this, the restaurant on the upper level does not serve soup as the liquid’s movement alerts diners to the gentle sway of the building.
Image courtesy of shanghaisound on flickr.
By Joe Peach
“We need to draw lines in the ground and say, ‘The concrete stops here.’ That forces people to build in and up, rather than out - and there’s nothing wrong with high, dense urban environments as long as they’re planned correctly. They can be extremely livable. They tend to require less transportation, fewer sewer lines, fewer power lines, fewer roads, and more tightly packed structures, which in and of themselves are more energy efficient.”
Patrick Moore, environmental consultant and co-founder of Greenpeace
