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Urban planning decisions will be presented in a more visual way and therefore citizens’ fears will decrease due to more transparent processes and the availability of information.

Three Cities on the Benefits and Challenges of Digital Twins - Cities Today

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One thunderstorm, it has been calculated, can contain an amount of energy equivalent to four days’ use of electricity for the whole United States.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

To this day, architects tend to turn their noses up at Las Vegas, or simply dismiss it as irrelevant to serious design theory. “From an architecture perspective, its a city that’s known for neon, a city known for kitsch,” explains Stefan Al, a practicing architect and author of the book The Strip: Las Vegas and the architecture of the American Dream. “It’s exactly the opposite of what conventionally trained architects would like.”

Lessons From Las Vegas - 99% Invisible

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