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Cities in Motion Film
How Bucharest is Building with Its Past
From a historic house transformed into Romania's first purpose built independent theater since 1946, to 21 hectares of flood infrastructure at the Lacul Morii reservoir becoming a welcoming public landscape, Bucharest is turning reuse into a design opportunity.
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UIA 2026 Barcelona
World Congress of Architects UIA 2026 Barcelona
Five Rules for Better City-Making
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CityMakers Voices - No.5
The climate finance leader making resilience alluring in cities
Climate Finance Leader James Cameron on Valuing Nature in Cities
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World Congress of Architects UIA 2026 Barcelona
A Holcim Foundation Fellow on Rethinking the Architect's Role
Next Generation's view on curing the Architect's Blues
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Future Tides Film
Hamburg Builds with Water
Rather than hiding behind dikes, HafenCity — Europe's largest inner-city development project — raised its streets by roughly 8 meters above sea level, expanding Hamburg's inner city by 40 percent.
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CityMakers Voices - No.4
The urban designer behind Nusantara, Indonesia's new capital
Urban Designer Sofian Sibarani on designing Indonesia's new capital
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CityMakers Live
Deeper than Density
A Sense of Place in Bucharest
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CityMakers Voices - No.3
Urban Mines and Inventory-Constrained Design
Engineer Brogan MacDonald makes the case for treating existing buildings as material banks and urban mines at the heart of a lower-carbon future.
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Cities as the front line of climate action
London Climate Action Week 2026
Reflections on climate cooperation from London's built environment
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Future Tides Film
How Manchester is Working With Water
Manchester is turning flood risk into a model for nature-based urban resilience.
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CityMakers Voices - No.2
CityMakers Voices Loreta Castro Reguera
The Mexico City architect on designing with water, not against it — and why the neighborhood scale changes everything.
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C40 Reinventing Cities Competitions
New Reinventing Cities Competitions are Now Open
Competitions open in Bologna, Bilbao, and Belo Horizonte
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Report on the Emerging ChangeMaker (ECM) 2025
Leadership through Interdependence
Enabling the Future of CityMaking
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