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Pact  Cities That Steal Smart Ideas From Animals & Plants

Pact Cities That Steal Smart Ideas From Animals & Plants

by The Daily Eye Team May 2 2016, 1:45 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secs

Architects, designers and urban planners are borrowing from natural phenomena as diverse as termite mounds and resilient grapefruits to design smart, sustainable cities. With soaring glass skyscrapers and swaths of concrete, modern cities often seem actively to work against nature, pushing it down and suppressing it rather than working alongside it.Yet a growing number of progressive architects, designers, engineers, scientists and urban planners are looking to the Earth’s systems for inspiration.

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