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Underground Cities: New Frontiers in Urban Living

Exploring the potential for human civilizations underground

In partnership with publisher Lund Humphries, we’ve launched our new book, Underground Cities: New Frontiers in Urban Living, which journeys across continents and into the future, to explore the new ...
by AECOM Editors
• September 24, 2020October 8, 2020 • Cities, Uncategorized, Urban design
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Eight steps to a brilliant city

Cities have never been more important, nor the competition between them more intense. Those positioned to excel through this time of global change are pursuing broad, integrated strategies to tap ...
by Stephen Engblom
• September 22, 2015July 25, 2017 • Uncategorized
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Acoustic design for more livable cities

Image: copyright AECOM photo by David Lloyd The sound quality of urban environments is an important consideration for people’s health and well being. The World Health Organisation notes that one ...
by Alex Southern
• July 17, 2014July 25, 2017 • Infrastructure, Urban design
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Coming home to Tainan

A cross-disciplinary team from AECOM’s Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing and London offices is hard at work this week in the Taiwanese city of Tainan (pop 1.2 million). Commissioned ...
by Daniel Elsea
• July 9, 2014July 25, 2017 • Urban design
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Livable infrastructure

Fourth Ward Park, Atlanta. The world’s cities are already home to the majority of the global population, with this forecast to grow by a further 3 billion people by 2050. ...
by Zac Cvitkovic
• May 16, 2014July 25, 2017 • Infrastructure, Urban design
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What should Earth Day mean?

Image: Copyright Robb Williamson / AECOM The questions of how we can find a sustainable balance between society and nature and how we design and manage our cities are of ...
by Jacob Herson
• April 22, 2014July 25, 2017 • Resilience
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Firm Foundation

Firm Foundation waterfront public space, Banjarmasin, Indonesia. Photo by Bima Pramata. It has been about a year now since a new public space called Firm Foundation opened in Banjarmasin – a ...
by Michael Haggerty
• February 5, 2014July 25, 2017 • Urban design
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