A company in Japan has come up with a new way of demolishing high-rise buildings in densely built-up areas, as an alternative to using wrecking balls or explosives.
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On la surnomme La Pomme, les bâtisseurs de cette ville ont délibérément créé un poumon vert de 300 ha (Central Park) entre les tours, dernièrement elle a transformé sa High Line en promenade verte de 2,3 km à travers Manhattan et voilà qu'on y produit désormais des salades Gotham Greens sur ses toits en utilisant de l'énergie renouvelable !
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicknamed Big Apple, the builders of this city have deliberately created a green lung of 300 ha (Central Park) between the towers, lately it has turned in his High Line Green 2.3 km walk through Manhattan and there now produces Gotham Greens vegetables and culinary herbs on rooftops using renewable energy! Via Respons, Grd Lyon-millenaire3 Delete the scoop?
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For many years, architects and city planners from around the world have been trying to create the green ideal: an entire city built to strict environmental standards- highly functional while still retaining aesthetic value.
Here’s a look at some green building and community design that caught our attention in recent months and may (or may not) become reality in the next several years. Their physical footprints may be large, but by using features such as wind power, solar, rainwater recycling and advanced air quality controls, their carbon footprints don't have to be... Via Lauren Moss 
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This is going beyond Mazdar in Dubai. The reality is that we need to transform existing cities since starting from scratch is rare. We need to retrofit cities more than build new ones, but still it is interesting. Delete the scoop?
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