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ADAPTIVE REUSE AND REPURPOSING URBAN OBJECTS
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Future of Industry repurposing factory chimneys

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

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

By replacing advertising lights with anti-SAD light therapy bulbs in 30 city bus stops, Umeå Energi transformed functional urban infrastructure into mental health boosting units.

Repurposed Bus Stops Improve Public Mental Health

2019-03-29

By replacing advertising lights with anti-SAD light therapy bulbs in 30 city bus stops, Umeå Energi transformed functional urban infrastructure into mental health boosting units.Continue Reading

Renewable Energy Under City Streets: Generating Power from City Water Pipes

2019-01-28

LucidPipe applies the same principles of hydroelectric dams to urban water systems, generating power from the movement of water through the city’s pipes.Continue Reading

Grünerløkka’s iconic grain elevator and storage silos into Grünerløkka Studenthus, a 226-unit student housing complex.

Future of Industrial Infrastructure: Student Housing?

2018-12-28

Grünerløkka Studenthus is a repurposed industrial grain silo that became a 226-unit student housing complex in Oslo, Norway.Continue Reading

Reprogramming the City by Scott Burnham

Adaptive Reuse and Repurposing Urban Objects for New Use

2018-12-28

44 international urban repurposing projects showing how existing urban infrastructure, surfaces and systems can be reused and adapted for new use.Continue Reading

Design with the city - Creating a Micro Park on a Hong Kong Stairway

Micro Park Created on a Hong Kong Stairway

2018-08-07

The Cascade is a mini urban park designed to be installed on top of an existing stairway, offering shoppers and businesspeople a moment of rest and relaxation.Continue Reading

UTEC Water Billboard Scott Burnham Reprogramming the City Repurposed Billboard Urban Infrastructure

Transforming a Billboard to Provide Clean Drinking Water

2018-01-07

The UTEC Water Billboard is a repurposed billboard in Lima, Peru, that generates clean drinking water from the air, using a humidity collection system.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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