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What would our cities look like if we started again, from scratch, with everything we know now? Would we create central business districts (CBDs) if we had the chance to redesign our cities? How different would our buildings be from the environments we have created now? These questions about workplaces, the built environment and city landscape are central to the conclusions in a new white paper by commercial real estate firm JLL. To produce the study JLL partnered with TEDx Sydney to tap into the ideas, creativity and diversity of the highly engaged TED community, under the name ‘Urban Canvas’. “Urban Canvas is the name we have given our partnership to reflect our concept of asking the TEDxSydney community what their ideal urban environment would be – how people want to work in the future and what kind of built environment they want to work in,” said JLL Director of Corporate Solutions, Rajiv Nagrath. In […]

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