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Chapter 1
Senior housing designed to combat loneliness
Jeffrey Ginsburg of Volunteers of America-Greater New York and Fernando Villa of Magnusson Architecture and Planning discuss how design can help prevent loneliness in senior housing projects.
11 minutes
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Chapter 2
Playgrounds in Helsinki
Petri Burtsoff reports on a new playground in Helsinki that exemplifies how thinking like a kid can help make better spaces for both learning and play.
6 minutes
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Chapter 3
The ‘sponge city’ concept
Kongjian Yu, the landscape architect behind the ‘sponge city’ concept, joins us to explain how the idea came about and how it spread around the world.
8 minutes
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