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City and restaurant: who will protect the industry?

City and restaurant: who will protect the industry?The restaurant business depends not only on preferences and tastes or the state of the economy. Its operation is also closely tied to city rules, from summer terraces to the tax regime. So the main question for the industry today is not whether oversight is needed, but where the line runs between regulation and excessive bureaucracy.Radovan Simonovich#Gastronomy#Ideas & Analysis

Landscape as Urban Infrastructure

Landscape as Urban InfrastructureLandscape architecture connects buildings, streets, infrastructure and natural systems. It shapes how people move through a city, spend their time and experience their surroundings. Thomas Doyle, an ARCHICA 2026 speaker from Coen+Partners, an architecture and urban planning practice with offices in Minneapolis and Riyadh specialising in landscape architecture and urban planning, spoke to HD Magazine about working with context, the long-term value of the urban environment, and how a region’s cultural and climatic characteristics influence design.Anna Oris#Architecture & Urban Environment#Ideas & Analysis

A Flood-Safe Flat: 4 Questions to Ask a Developer About Heavy Rain and Flooding

A Flood-Safe Flat: 4 Questions to Ask a Developer About Heavy Rain and FloodingPremium cars floating in underground car parks, flooded basements in new-build developments and residents wading knee-deep through water in their own courtyards: scenes like these are hardly unusual in our cities. The first response from a developer or management company is often: “Nature is to blame. We had a month’s worth of rain.”Dmitry Kuzyakin#Ecology and Economics#Ideas & Analysis

Nature as an advantage: why Almaty should be designed around its territory

Nature as an advantage: why Almaty should be designed around its territoryAlmaty is very lucky with its location: the city has good starting conditions - mountains, rivers and green spaces. But in conventional planning, this wealth is far from always taken into account.Zhanna Spooner#Ecology and Economics#Ideas & Analysis

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