Living in an apartment is an exciting experience. However, due to the limited space and aside from the fact that you’re being bumped closely to your neighbors, one has to consider what kind of furniture must be brought inside to ensure a happy and livable environment. After all, no one likes the feeling of being [...]
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Essential Furnishings for Your Apartment
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Living the Urban Life Style
I am truly loving the urban lifestyle! As some of you may already know, I live right in the heart of the action in Old Town Scottsdale. I woke up this morning and took one of my dogs, my pitbull Candy, for a 4 mile run to the park. Now we are back at the [...]
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Is rural living cheaper than urban living?
Recent surveys showed that rural homes nowadays are costlier than urban ones. The value of average rural properties cost ten times more than an average daily waged worker which makes it more difficult for these people to pay for mortgage. Due to recent inflations and its effect on the economy, many young working people find [...]
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Is smaller safer?
The population is booming globally and people are building their shelters everywhere and sometimes it’s too crowded already that you can’t even park your car in front of your house anymore fearing that it might collide with the car of your neighbor. With such compact spaces can we still move around and due to so [...]
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Better towns and cities to live in
It’s our choice actually where we wanted to settle down. It’s not the choice of developers/investors where they wanted to put us but, we can help them as settlers to build us safer and better town and cities to live with. We should tell them to provide us with a neighborhood that is accessible to [...]
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Urban Space
An Urban space is about an area located at the heart of a sprawling city. It is where most people nowadays would like to build their homes, rent their office space, or some for investment purposes. The new genre prefers to either work or live here because as they say, in the near future value [...]
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How can you make your urban garden?
Gardens are of different purposes, either for residential, park use or even for zoos. Basically we’re asking if gardens are still applicable if you live in the city, and the answer is yes, of course! You can still manage to have your own garden even if you have a small space left in front of [...]
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Gardens
Domestic gardens have been a valued element of family landscaping during the past centuries. An urban environment adorned with a little green space which not only provides a form of relaxation for the eyes but at times a refuge for animals, insects and birds. In various parts of the world, these domestic gardens are slowly [...]
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Urban Design
Practice and definition of Urban Design has been varied and diverse but has continued to gain prominence across the world during recent years. In essence, it combines key principles of Urban Planning and Architecture that helps to extend the different aspects of these disciplines. Practitioners of Urban Design help to provide shape and even texture [...]
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How can we build better towns and cities?
 Living in cities can be dirty, tiresome and stressful.In this series, Alun Lewis looks at the engineering that is needed in order to make urban life more pleasant. In the first of these two programmes, Alun Lewis will explore the social engineering of towns and cities. What do you need to think about in [...]
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