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REPROGRAMMING THE CITY
REPROGRAMMING THE CITY
ADAPTIVE REUSE AND REPURPOSING URBAN OBJECTS
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Urban Recycling, Renewal, and Recovery

Renewal and recovery of disused and underused urban assets is an essential part of future urban recycling considerations.

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Future of Industry? Repurposing Factory Chimneys For New Skyscrapers

2022-07-11

Could the Future of Industry be Source Material for Adaptive Reuse? As industrial operations move away from dense and expensiveContinue Reading

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8 Ideas for Old Subway Cars: Proposals to Repurpose Retired BART Trains

2022-03-22

San Francisco’s BART transportation agency has released eight ideas for old subway cars that were the winning proposals to repurpose retired trains from the fleet.Continue Reading

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Urban Mining: 50 Ways to Mine the City

2021-09-14

Urban Mining and Harvesting City Resources Can Create a Sustainable, Circular Economy Year after year, resources are fed into theContinue Reading

Repurposed Railway Arches Become Affordable Workspaces

Repurposed Railway Arches Become Affordable Workspaces

2021-03-05

Repurposed railway arches leverage and utilize urban infrastructure for more beneficial uses.Continue Reading

Repurposing Reykjavík Geothermal Water Tanks

Repurposing Reykjavík’s Geothermal Water Tanks

2019-07-06

Reykjavík has turned a piece of functional urban infrastructure into a cultural icon in the city by repurposing geothermal waterContinue Reading

Green New Deal Urban Infrastructure

Green New Deal: Creating Next Generation Urban Infrastructure by Repurposing It for New Use

2019-04-11

By only repairing urban infrastructure, we are missing an opportunity to repurpose it for new use, making cities more resilient and livable using by using the assets already in place.Continue Reading

First Class Meal aims to repurpose closed US Postal Service buildings by using the buildings, services, and systems to address urban food insecurity.

Food Deserts: Is Reusing Closed Post Offices as Food Distribution Centers the Answer?

2019-04-10

First Class Meal aims to repurpose closed US Post Office buildings by using the buildings, services, and systems to address urban food insecurity.Continue Reading

Lava Mae has converted city buses into mobile shower and sanitation units for the homeless.

Repurposed Buses Become Mobile Hygiene Stations

2017-07-14

Lava Mae has converted city buses into mobile shower and sanitation units for the homeless. The new use for city buses allow the organization to bring services directly to urban areas with high concentrations of homeless people.Continue Reading

A1 EV car charging station from repurposed phone booth

Converting Phone Booths into EV Charging Stations

2017-06-16

As part of a “Green Innovation” initiative, Telekom Austria’s A1 division has been replacing underused phone booths with EV Charging Stations.Continue Reading

Turning Parking Meters Into Urban Communication Systems

2017-04-26

City Tickets harnesses the full potential of parking meters, turning them into two-way communication systems between the city and citizen.Continue Reading

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Reprogramming the City Book: Adaptive Reuse

Global Overview of Adaptive Reuse

41 Projects from 17 Countries

“A hopeful anthology of solutions for our hot, crowded planet.” – Renée Loth, AchitectureBoston

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40 Pages of Examples and Exercises

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