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THE PUBLIC CHANCE is a visual analysis of 30 urban landscapes of opportunity. The projects selected are grouped according to scene of origin: - Industrial areas - Peripheral voids - Infrastructures - Waterfronts.

Each project is located: - within surroundings of 60 km2 at a scale of 1:20,000 - within surroundings of 3.5 km2 at a scale of 1:10,000.
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THE PUBLIC CHANCE, the new a+t book on public spaces available by the end of July 2008, is a visual analysis of 30 urban landscapes of opportunity. The projects selected are grouped according to scene of origin: - Industrial areas - Peripheral voids - Infrastructures - Waterfronts.
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THE PUBLIC CHANCE, the new a+t book on public spaces available by the end of July 2008, is a visual analysis of 30 urban landscapes of opportunity.
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THE PUBLIC CHANCE, the new a+t book on public spaces available by the end of July 2008, gathers the most commonly used design strategies in revitalizing public space. Twenty different strategies on public space design are thus highlighted, from the included projects.
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THE PUBLIC CHANCE, a+t’s new book about public spaces, features 30 urban landscapes as opportunity generators. a+t identifies a series of opportunities, from territorial to individual scale, that come up from the re-used scenes.

OPPO.
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THE PUBLIC CHANCE, the new a+t book on public spaces available by the end of July 2008, is a visual analysis of 30 urban landscapes of opportunity.

We, as citizens, have a common territory that in fact pertains less and less to us as time goes by. The cities in which we live, the stages of our daily efforts, the world of our routine and our maps of obligations and pleasures, are getting broken up into limited domains. It is a conflict that has existed for years, a conflict that involves the public sphere being sucked into the private spiral at the rate of land revaluation.
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The intervention in the Young Vic Theatre was done with the fluency of someone inviting friends over, with no pomp, no boasting, familiar with the likes and needs of its own and yet at the same time technically discreet and efficient.
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The architecture blog A Barriga de um Arquitecto (written in bilingual Portuguese-English) has recently published a post about a+t's new website.
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Land occupation is a key issue for a sustainable world. Density projects gathers some historical views and comments by experts on how cities should grow.
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Plataforma Arquitectura publishes a post about a+t's new website. Plataforma Arquitectura is one of the latinamerican most visited blog. Its aim is to spread Chilean and Latinamerican young architects' projects and generate discurssion about them, taking advantage of web 2.0.

Guided by one of its authors, Iñaki Alday, we toured the Metropolitan Water Park, a periurban park adjacent to the Expo site which will be the finest legacy of the event to the public once the Expo is finished and the mad collection of buildings on the site becomes a business park.
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Accompanying Plan. Pro Expo Consortium 2008 Common in this type of appointments, the legacy of the Expo will fortunately go much further than the site itself, a motley set of architectural gestures somewhere between an amusement park and a shopping centre.
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As I haven't been able to gain access to the inside of the pavilion, for now it is enough to admire how it imposes its presence against surrounding artifacts, and to applaud the choice of baked clay. Low technology on a tremendous scale.
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One of the most relevant architectural blogs in Spanish, Edgar González, has recently mentioned a+t's new website.

At almost 100 years old, the master Niemeyer inaugurated the theatre of his home town last April. This was a work that suffered several modifications and a significant delay due to serious budget problems.
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