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we study current events as they impact the built form of cities, with a particular focus on tough issues such as:


suburbs
property

parking
detached homes malls
regionalism
institutionalism
equity
immigration 
deveopment
subdivisions
modern planning
schools
real estate
policy
ecology
recycling
transit
landscape
architecture
sreets
ethnoburb
ethnic mall
the commons
malls
schools
real estate
policy
institutionalism
ecology
recycling
transit
landscape
architecture
sreets




































































At the turn of the 20th century, cities promoted their expansion with grand aerial perspectives focused on the downtown.


















A century later, this downtown view tells a fraction of the story.













This project flips the perspective on the city, foregrounding the periphery, where contemporary urbanization is currently playing out.