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Chapter 1
Hong Kong’s harbour-front site
Land in Hong Kong is notoriously scarce so the opportunity to develop a prime harbour-front site has property tycoons, urban planners and architects across the world talking.
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Chapter 2
Avenida Paulista
With the appearance of shopping malls and heavy traffic, together with people moving out of the city, Avenida Paulista has slowly lost a bit of its charm. Luckily that’s about to change.
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Chapter 3
Long Island City
Sitting just one subway stop from Manhattan lies Long Island City, which is the country’s fastest-growing neighbourhood. And with more than 10,000 apartments added to it, there’s some hope it will help ease the housing crisis.
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Chapter 4
Get off the square
The Swiss like to vote for pretty much everything and the latest addition to the ballot box is what to do with one of its main squares… because it’s too popular.
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