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Cultivation of airport cities is an emerging development strategy shaped by urban planners, civic leaders, airport executives, and academics.
While there is no single silver bullet to reverse the effects of climate change, designers can help to plan ahead for handling more water in our ci...
Parks departments and designers find new approaches to ameliorate homelessness.
People seem to experience a gravitation toward the water’s edge acutely and we traverse concrete and asphalt just to gaze out over an open expanse...
It’s useful for planning for the “worst-case scenario”, but it is important to remember that major floods can happen at any time.
The Polk County Library in Columbus, N.C. Photo: Melinda/Creative Commons.
Libraries are changing from dull book boxes into vibrant hubs for academic institutions. Sasaki surveyed more than 400 librarians to learn how libr...
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What would it look like if achieving universal accessibility was an inspiring point of departure for a project's design process? Sasaki's Gina Ford...
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Sasaki's Philip Barash and Nina Chase explore the changing landscape of public art in the face of major cultural shifts, such as the proliferation...
High Street City: (Gradually) Living with Water was selected as one of six finalists.
The competition asks for creative approaches for planning for a not-so-distant future Boston where higher sea levels and more frequent flooding wil...
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Too often, members of a community are put into a reactive position, asked for their input only when a major project is proposed. But examples of pr...
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Nearly 32 million people, or 28% of the East Coast's population, live in areas lying within a mile of a shore line. The good news is that municipal...
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Higher education is rapidly evolving. As we use planning and design to help our clients navigate major shifts in culture, technology, and funding,...
Collaboration areas at Arnold Worldwide.
Open layouts are grabbing headlines as a hallmark of the new workplace—think the Google campus or Facebook's headquarters. And for smaller-scale op...
As part of its ongoing ZNE buildings research project, Sasaki Associates, in collaboration with Buro Happold, surveyed some 500 campus designers an...
Methodist University's 1960s student union was originally built for a student population of 600. The school now has over 2,000 students.
Most colleges and universities feel pressure to offer the latest amenities in order to attract and retain the best and brightest students. While ha...
