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How to Build Public Spaces for Teen Girls

How to Build Public Spaces for Teen Girls

Teen girls are neither children nor adults, meaning they have specific needs and behaviours different from both these groups. Unfortunately, like many marginalized groups, these needs and behaviours have not been met or encouraged through our built environment as it has for others. For example, playgrounds are built for children to let off steam and […]

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EPCOT: Walt Disney’s New Urbanist City

EPCOT: Walt Disney’s New Urbanist City

Beneath the Spaceship Earth geodesic sphere and the display of world cultures that symbolize Disney World’s EPCOT lies the buried vision for a utopian city. The original EPCOT – a community built around innovation – was one of Walt Disney’s last visionary projects. Bothered by haphazard urban sprawl,Disney had bold ideas for an urban fabric that would […]

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