Highlighting Natural Assets in the City - How Asian Waterways Shine
The waterways in Seoul and Kyoto demonstrate how seamlessly integrating nature into the urban fabric enriches the experience of daily life for everybody.
Great Public Spaces68
There is nothing like the thrill that one gets when they go to a great place again and again. Great places are addictive dwell in your memory, often emerging to cheer you up and give you incentive to go back or just explore in your mind the pleasures you had or what you might have missed. They can be in your community/neighborhood at a corner cafe, a special store or park. Often they are right in front of our noses if we will just look.
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