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Cities will become the resource-efficient
epicentres of our world. However,
achieving this goal will require foresight and
effective coordination between planners,
designers, developers and implementers of projects
across a city. In the property and buildings sector where
industry players often work in silos, who do you turn to decide how
to shape progress? Where can best investment value be derived?
How can industry coordinate to offer better outcomes for
investors and city citizens?
This paper is an investigation into the drivers and
interests of players in the property and buildings supply
chain, and reveals a capacity for industry to share the
responsibility of reducing resource use during the asset
development, renewal and management cycle. Read
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Presented at First International Congress "Architectural Design.
Teaching and Research" BARI, 3 – 7 May 2011 by Brendan Texeira
(B.Arch Assoc A.I.A) and Arindam Bose (M.Arch Assoc A.I.A)
This paper presents the evolution of a young city Doha Qatar
through its relatively small city size, dynamics of population mix
and requirements and demands of regional clientele. It explains the
transformation of the city over the last ten years from a desert
oasis to a skyline that has been termed as achieving "The Manhattan
Effect" and also illustrates several local projects directing us as
architects towards a sustainable evolutionary growth.
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