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Rethinking Urbanism Through Vertical Cities

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In recent years, urban planners and architects around the world have been developing ideas and creating different solutions to approach the challenge of high-density urbanisation, and the concept of the vertical city has become a very popular one.

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The Mirador building concept, by MVRDV






FLIP/CITY concept






Aerial view of different FLIP/CITY clusters inserted in Shanghai’s cityscape






FLIP/CITY – Cross sections of one possible city-cluster






FLIP/CITY – Detail of long section






FLIP/CITY – View from inside a city cluster