Design
Urbanism
Report
Breaking the rules— Global
Preface
The codes of good urban planning are common sense. But sometimes those rules are there to be broken and, as in these five examples, the results can work surprisingly well.
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01Manhattan
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02Vienna
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03Mumbai
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04Beirut
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