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		<title>How about some quality assurance for planting design?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stop time-wasting subjective reviews for planting design. Instead, use a rules-based planting design and review system. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Maximise benefits of sustainably available water</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the desert cities of the Gulf, you might think we should minimise water use. When you know the region you will understand that maximising the benefits of available water is the more sustainable approach. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Makers District tree gardens</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Towers cast shade. In Abu Dhabi that sounds like a good thing, and for people it is. For trees it is a problem. Too dark for trees, too hot for people. At the Makers District, that paradox changed how we planted.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A campus that irrigates itself</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sohar University wanted a green campus on a coast where the water table is falling and seawater is moving in behind it. The answer was not to use the local water more carefully. It was to leave it alone entirely, and irrigate the campus from its own wastewater.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dubai, Ras Al Khaimah and Muscat</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Four days in Dubai, Ras Al Khaimah and Muscat. A site with environmental problems and a poor public reputation. A toy goat that bleats. Fifteen-year-old trees finally shading a pavement in midsummer. And the case for appointing expertise before writing the scope.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Shade It Like You Mean It</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Conventional shadow studies fix on the solstices and equinox — dates set by the calendar, not by climate. This guide shows how to get real value from the analysis, with a sample brief developers can issue: study the shoulder seasons, matched to how people use each space.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Italian build part one</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[It started with tapware — solid brass, handmade by a British metalworker in Italy's tap-making heartland around Lake Orta. That find opened a door onto a network of artisans working metal by hand. Together, custom design and craft pared the finishes down into a modern take on the Tuscan farmhouse, set in the city.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The everyday revolution</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[At this year's Met Gala, Bhavitha Mandava turned heads in what appeared to be jeans and a tank top. Beneath the simplicity: silk muslin and hundreds of hours of atelier work. Effort to appear effortless. The best outdoor spaces work exactly the same way.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Money Trees</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trees are one of the most powerful value multipliers available to a developer — yet they are routinely restricted because of subjective opinions, not evidence based. This post looks explains the value urban canopy delivers in amenity value, market positioning, cultural resonance, and master development premiums. The numbers are compelling.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Resilience! Urban Trees and the Community</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A healthy tree in a city under stress reassures us that city systems are functioning. In the Gulf, where every tree depends on desalination, wastewater recycling, and citywide irrigation infrastructure, maintaining that green canopy is not an amenity question — it is a measure of urban resilience, and a signal of institutional confidence.]]></description>
		
		
		
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