This building will be built in the city.

So the problems of sustainability cannot be separated from the nature of the cities, of which the buildings are a part.

At the city center, there are many tall buildings.

424. The Act on Town Planning and the Building Law, passed in 1994, has created the basis for rationalizing decision making procedures in allocating land for building, and also for establishing principles of conduct for running building concerns and managing buildings.

And then the broader ideas of city making start having direct influences on architecture, on the elements that make up the broader scheme, the buildings themselves, and start guiding us.

They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers.

267. The most important area of commitment in housing and building policy is publicly subsidized urban renewal, governed by the Act on Urban Renewal and Housing Improvements.

Through recent amendments to the Planning and Building Act, goals for sustainable urban development have been introduced into Swedish planning legislation.

But it was also the largest city that had ever been built.

It has also issued a proposal quot Urban ecology, buildings and residences quot as a draft for public discussion on a complete urban ecological plan of action for the building and housing sector.

(c) Rules for planning and implementation of urban renewal projects by the municipalities.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

And in fact, the remedy for wounded and mutilated urbanism is good urbanism, good buildings.

(h) Praha (November 1994) Underground construction in cities

If you think of the great buildings, of the cathedrals, of the temples, of the pyramids, of pagodas, of cities in India and beyond, you think of how incredible this is that that was realized not by some abstract idea, but by people.

On the left hand side, I had the context of those little houses, and I tried to build a building that fit into that context.

The individual municipality may also approve building expenditures which exceed the recommended limit per square metre.

And then what they did was they created a city above the flyovers.

And that directly connects to ideas of city making.

And yet, I believe it is the expression expression of the city, expression of our own space that gives meaning to architecture.

The urban development project is addressing this issue through the provision of secure land tenure and application of appropriate building regulations.

And finally, to pull out all the stops, this is a system called Urp, for urban planners, in which we give architects and urban planners back the models that we confiscated when we insisted that they use CAD systems.

And architect Christian Kerrigan has come up with a series of designs that show us how it may be possible to actually grow a limestone reef underneath the city.

Urban poor Urban resources Urban sustainability Urban services Urban disasters and reconstruction.

Construction costs have increased during recent years and the housing crisis is serious, with a high proportion of informal housing in the largest urban centres.

Removal of architectural and other physical barriers is being carried out, and thus far many have been removed in public buildings in cities.

The regulatory environment has been highly liberal and regulations have been by and large limited to codes related to the construction of retailing real estate.

Is this an opportunity, is the silver lining a silver lining, here to rebuild some more traditional city grid, or not?

This is the back of Boston City Hall, the most important, you know, significant civic building in Albany excuse me in Boston.

(Música) John Norquist

425. The legal and institutional basis for counteracting lawlessness in the building industry has been created, as well as for implementing up to date technical building standards.

Abandoned buildings became a security risk, which further accelerated the exodus from the city.

About the size of the Great Wall of China, this would hardly be an invisible structure.

The sculpture could now be entirely soft, which made it so light it could tie in to existing buildings literally becoming part of the fabric of the city.

And I tried to there's a Nick Grimshaw building over here, there's an Oldenburg sculpture over here I tried to make a relationship urbanistically.

It's not, perhaps, the dimensions appreciated by art critics or architecture critics or city planners.

And this is an acupuncture note or I.M. Pei's. Some small ones can make the city better.

Edinburgh already offers a busy and traditional city experience, with many historic buildings and tourist attractions.

Municipalities construct housing units on municipal plots using funds from the Housing Construction Municipal Fund.

Urban Planning Revisited

The latter regulates the purposes for the use of various kinds of buildings (housing, production, mixed or villa), type of construction, borderlines of building sites, kind of building (one storey, several storey or many storey buildings), height of buildings, situation of buildings and distances between them, building ledges.

Because these were ideas that we were talking about, building things next to each other, making it's all about a metaphor for a city, maybe.

And what we would see here as a suburban development a similar thing, but they're all high rises.

211. Environmental and health planning of houses, buildings and premises, are regulated by the Law on Protection of the Environment, the Law on Territorial and Urban Rural Structure, as well as Ordinance No. 5 of 1995, mentioned above, and the Bulgarian State Standard.

So this is a school in a bus on a building site in Pune, the fastest growing city in Asia.