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In the glorified age of Do-It-Yourself-Everything (I will place direct blame on guilty pleasures such as HGTV, and Pinterest, for starters…) designers’ roles continue to evolve and change in ways that often seem less about building and more about the leverage and application of logic and creativity that design thinking entails.
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If we mapped each local project completed by Gensler, D.C., in the office’s 30-year history—from law firms and commercial office buildings to institutional developments and master plans—the constellation of work would stretch across most of the city. But rarely as designers are we given the opportunity to interrogate the lines between our projects, the commonality of the urban realm that binds our work together.
Rives Taylor 
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When cities are confronted by sudden deluges, our immediate response is to get rid of the offending water fast. In the past year alone, New York, Fukushima, Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, and dozens of Chinese cities all faced widespread devastation at the hands of flooding. In times of extreme weather events, storm water is the enemy. It can cause damage and kill in its ferocity.
In Las Vegas, the team developed a strategy to transform the streetscape of the city's (in)famous strip into an ad hoc town square. Image © Gensler
By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population—some 6.29 billion people—will live in cities, according to data from the United Nations. The pressure to create urban centres that facilitate healthy human social interaction is greater than ever. And it will grow ever more.
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