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The Twentieth Century witnessed an ambitious range of planning schemes for new towns and capital cities. While these projects were driven by diverse political, economic, and geographic conditions, many of them shared an enthusiasm for landscape as a medium of urbanism. Given the widely documented and generally accepted shortcomings of modern planning, many of these cities are seen as failures in social, environmental, and cultural terms.

5th JANE (JACOBS) WALKS IN PORTO ALEGRE
WALKING BEYOND ANTHROPOCENTRISM
June 10, 11, and 12, 2022

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The Council of Architecture and Urbanism of Rio de Janeiro (CAU/RJ) will hold the first edition of "CAU nos Bairros" (CAU in the Neighborhoods) in Campo Grande on June 1st and 2nd. This free, public initiative aims to demonstrate how architects and urban planners can help build or renovate with efficiency, quality, and fewer unforeseen issues.

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Immaterial flows characterize the urban condition in the era of globalized information, intensifying its existing complexity. Temptations to return to the past, or a penchant for the radical or purely virtual, accompany the uncertainty of a landscape undergoing profound social transformations. To intervene in a perceptible way, a new cohesion is required, provided by a diagrammatic unfolding of the urban condition and a move beyond form-based urban readings. This new arrangement aims to reveal more than the simple sum of its parts.

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