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This piece discusses the collaborative nature of urban development, highlighting the importance of integrating diverse expertise and community involvement to create a living city. It uses the example of Azhadi Winery to illustrate how successful projects require cooperation across multiple disciplines and examines the complexities of scaling from individual buildings to entire cities.
October 6, 2026·5 min read·NODA
Form gives a city its permanence; it is not what makes people attached to it. What the research says about screens, content and community — and why tech-first smart cities keep failing. (Cover Image: Projection on the Grande Bibliothèque, Quartier des Spectacles, Montréal. Photo: art_inthecity, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.)
October 5, 2026 · 17 min read
