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#64. Trees Reduce Allergies

After becoming interested in allergies as a botany student, Thomas Leo Ogren began to research the relationship between city planning and allergies.

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#65. Fake Horses Plan Real Park

muf architecture/art was commissioned in 2003 to design a community park for the Broadway Estate in Tilbury.

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#66. Birds Research Local History

A pre-planning research project that engaged the community in establishing claims to a site for a future park.

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#67. Wood Makes People Big as Cars

The Austrian civil engineer Hermann Knoflacher developed the Gehzeug, or walkmobile, in 1975 to allow a pedestrian to approximate the amount of space taken by a motorist.

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#68. Trash Dump Revives Borough

ReBuilders Source warehouse and store, South Bronx, 2008 Photo : Gia Freilla

A worker-owned cooperative that sorts and repairs scrap dumped in the South Bronx from construction and demolition sites all over New York City.

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#69. Recycled Materials Cultivate Slum

Installed elements in Colombo, Minimum Cost Housing Group of McGill University, 2005 Photo: K.A. Jayaratne

A participatory project to preserve and upgrade a five-hundred-family shantytown on the edge of Columbo while improving residents’ access to water and integrating agricultural spaces for the produc

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#70. Prairie Reconnects Neighbourhood

The Greening of Detroit offers educational programs connecting residents with planting organizations, and runs tree and productive planting sessions along streets and in parks.

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#71. Vietnamese Farm Feeds New Orleans

An 11-hectare community farm located in an area severely damaged by hurricane Katrina, Viet Village Urban Farm was designed by residents of New Orleans East with architects Mossop + Michaels to res

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#72. Traffic Planning with Lie Detectors

A Galvanic Skin Response unit with a GPS transmitter that records the physiological arousal of its wearer on the principal of a lie detector, the Bio Mapping apparatus records user responses as the

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#73. Playgrounds Bring Slum to City

In opposition to typical approaches to slum improvement that clear large areas for new systems of infrastructure and housing, the Playspace Foundation proposed to integrate the Villa Tranquila slum

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