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Green Book # 2
The Towers of the Future
Judging by certain projects proposed for the "Grand Paris" redesign and the latest spectacular achievements across the globe, towers are all the rage in architecture.
The Burj Dubai skyscraper, which will be inaugurated in October, soars to a record height of 818 meters, antenna included. That means it will officially dethrone Taipei 101, Taiwan's 508 meter-high tower.
The New Green City of Pittsburgh
"I was born in Pittsburgh but I saw the sun in Washington" was a caustic joke told in the 1970s by residents of the Steel City, the steel-making bastion of the post-WWII era and of US Steel, the American steel giant.
Yet in 2008, Pittsburgh was ranked the "most livable city" in the US by The Economist magazine and the second-best city "for raising a family" by Business Week, another weekly.
The Rise of Port Cities
In the same way that it is not an enclosed sea, the Mediterranean is primarily a vast area of all-around exchange, not a homogeneous economic and cultural block. So organizing a single political and economic space, under common rules, is challenging, even if it is the stated political goal of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) created one year ago.
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