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Ten Ways to Transform Cities through Placemaking & Public Spaces

In 2011, UN-HABITAT and Project for Public Spaces (PPS) signed a 5-year cooperative agreement to aspire to raise international awareness of the importance of public space in cities, to foster a lively exchange of ideas…

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World’s Largest Canal Will Bring Water to Parched Northern Chinese Cities by 2018

IndustryTap has written about the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, China’s Three Gorges Dam, and China’s High-Speed Rail (HSR) project and its planned extension to Europe as a new Silk Road. Now China is breaking ground on…

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Shedding Light on the Sahara Forest Project

A new Kickstarter campaign “Green Deserts — The Saltwater Revolution” got underway last month to raise $35,000 to fund a new documentary produced and directed by Per Liebeck and his colleagues at Copenhagen Film Company…

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60,000 Ton Stone Structure Discovered Beneath the Sea of Galilee

A giant “monumental” stone structure discovered beneath the waters of the Sea of Galilee in Israel has archaeologists puzzled as to its purpose and even how long ago it was built. The mysterious structure is…

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China begins work on 105 KMH Maglev Trains

Following on from our reports of Japanese rail authorities looking into the construction of high speed magnetic levitation (Maglev) trains, construction will soon begin in neighboring China on their very own Maglev trains. All proposals and evaluations,…

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World’s Tallest Building, Burj Khalifa Running on ABB Custom Smart Grid

Sixty percent of the world’s energy consumption takes place in urban areas around the world. This number will increase to 70% by 2050 as the world’s population grows and cities along with it. In order…

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NASA Images Find 1.7 Million Year Old Man-Made Bridge

The NASA Shuttle has imaged a mysterious ancient bridge between India and Sri Lanka. The bridge was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved the sand around. This recently-discovered bridge has…

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Gautrain: Building Africa’s First High Tech World-Class Railway System

Gautrain, a 50 mile (80km) mass rapid transit railway system linking Johannesburg, Pretoria and OR Tambo International Airport, is Africa’s first world-class, modern rapid rail and bus service built for Gauteng, the economic center of…

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$6 Billion Floating City “Freedom” to Dwarf World’s Largest Ships Ever Built

Large cruise ships like Carnival Freedom, pictured above, may soon be dwarfed by much larger ships. The largest ship ever built, during its lifetime, had four names: Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, Jahre Viking and Knock…

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Hydroelectricity a Growing Source of Renewable Energy Worldwide

Hydroelectricity, a renewable source of energy, accounted for 16% of global electricity last year and hydroelectricity grew at just 3% last year. There are five types of dams: arch dams, gravity dams, arch-gravity dams, barrages,…

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Construction

Ten Ways to Transform Cities through Placemaking & Public Spaces

World’s Largest Canal Will Bring Water to Parched Northern Chinese Cities by 2018

Shedding Light on the Sahara Forest Project

60,000 Ton Stone Structure Discovered Beneath the Sea of Galilee

China begins work on 105 KMH Maglev Trains

World’s Tallest Building, Burj Khalifa Running on ABB Custom Smart Grid

NASA Images Find 1.7 Million Year Old Man-Made Bridge

Gautrain: Building Africa’s First High Tech World-Class Railway System

$6 Billion Floating City “Freedom” to Dwarf World’s Largest Ships Ever Built

Hydroelectricity a Growing Source of Renewable Energy Worldwide

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