Posts about Places

Sustainable Solutions for the Middle of Nowhere

Pablo La Roche, leader of CallisonRTKL’s Performance-Driven DesignSM team, talks about his holistic design approach to the world’s most remote inhabited island. Green, net zero and carbon negative buildings are all the rage. Cities around the globe, from Los Angeles to Shanghai, are vying to cut emissions through tax incentives and transit innovations. But how […]

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Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: 3 Trends Changing the Future of Pet Retail

Nadya Liebich and Ryan Benson discuss what’s next for this steadily growing market According to Wired, more than 60% of Americans have a pet and 90% of dog and cat owners think of them as members of the family. With younger people, specifically Millennials, now the largest pet-owning group, it’s safe to say that pet […]

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The End of the Desk

Bonnie Toland explores how the traditional desk may be holding us back and a vision for the future. Centuries of conditioning have led us to an unhealthy relationship with the desk. The desk, although pervasive, is not historically universal. Many societies found a variety of ways to read, write, and create without desks. The modern […]

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Could North Texas be the next “Blue Zone”?

CallisonRTKL’s Noel Aveton discusses how master planners and a handful of visionary developers are creating communities that connect and enhance well-being. What’s a Blue Zone? Blue Zones are places and communities around the world that have been identified as having the world’s healthiest people. These are people who grow older without many of the diseases […]

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