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The Architecture of Juvenile Detention in America

On any given night in the U.S., there are approximately 60,500 youth confined in juvenile correctional facilities or other residential programs. Photographer Richard Ross has spent the past five years criss-crossing the country photographing the architecture, cells, classrooms and inhabitants of these detention sites. — wired.com

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"Ross often cites the situation in Oakland, a city which spends $4945 per child in its public school system, but $224,712 per child incarcerated in the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center."

wow, that figure really puts this situation into perspective. unbelievable. 

It's disgusting, Micah.  Appalling.  Look at that poor child - he's TWELVE! - in a boarded up cell.  For fuckssake what is wrong with us as a culture.  Oh, I remember: profit.

Private prison companies can go to hell.

just wondering what crime he committed at 12! to deserve this? is there a point to richard ross taking these photographs cross-continent? is there any advocay to change the situation? if anyone knows...pls do share. tks

at kishani read the wired article but yes there are advocacy groups working on this problem of over incarceration generally, and specifically with regards to juvenile incarceration.

To be very clear, I am not an architect. But I do love architecture and its practice. I also love the world and my brothers and sisters inside it, all of them.  Id just like to point out there is a lawsuit being filed by the ACLU here in Texas where some of our prisoners apparently might be dying in our prisons because temperatures can reach 115 degrees here in the summer and this results in prisons which are made of lots of concrete being up to 130 degrees at times. Thus some fancy liberals think that this might cause older criminals to die sooner than they would have if they had not committed the crimes they have been convicted of committing.  Yes those crazy liberals are trying to get us to spend more money trying to fix broken people with big problems when we want nothing more than to separate ourselves from them so we do not have to see their suffering. I have spoken to some of my conservative friends who have made comments such as "Well, they are criminals and we do not want people thinking prison is a good place to go live." I personally have no problem paying taxes to punish people who break our laws as a deterrent to further crime. However if the results are that we end up with more desperation and less security in our whole society because of the decisions we make to punish people who break our laws then this is clearly not a system that works and it needs to be changed as we move forward as a society.  I was a troubled youth. I am astounded to hear stories about how stressed out people including police officers are mistreating people including our youth. I believe we can and should engineer systems which produce abundance not more desperation.  I live in a municipal utility district. It is ran by a corporation and we do not get into fights about every little issue. If an issue arises and we need to come to a decision which involves public input then there are public meetings. I attended the Town Hall last week and met our new county commissioner, sheriff, constable, and justice of the peace. The next morning the sheriff was in our community near one of our elementary schools with a radar gun warning parents and other drivers who were speeding to drop their kids off at school on time. Our area is experiencing lots of growth.  I hear a whole bunch from my liberal friends often dissing for profit corporations and I believed much of their smack talk for many years. I now see things differently as I am getting older. I now realize everyone has a choice to make. No one is going to live forever and we cannot fix all of the worlds problems but we can and we should do our best to do our fair share. We are all shareholders here. We can all buy stock, even live stock if we choose. Or we can buy tax free municipal bonds or even securities and even mutual funds which reduces our risk of loss of our investments.  This is what I do when I attend a political march or talk to my neighbors about a candidate running for office whom I support. I labor for the betterment of our society and I raise the value of our shares. It is my belief that more of this kind of financial thinking should be spread throughout the USA and world. It has taken me decades to learn something that is foundational to society and that is simply wrong. I believe it started to fall apart when the schools stopped teaching civics and began teaching government. Same subject matter really, but while one word focuses on role of the individual the other focuses on the function of the whole. Perhaps that was a decision that someone made long ago for some better reason than I know of but I know this for certain the more I became aware of the fact that Civic Engagement could give me a voice and that in the end we are all acting with Civility, I was awoken to a better way and I speak with my voice even asking questions at times which other people in the room may not know. Such as one I asked the other day which was What is the difference in a Sheriff and a Police Officer? The Sheriff answered and explained that it could become complex but that in the end the Sheriff works in the portions of the county that are unincorporated and the Police work in the city or town.  There are small towns in Colorado which often are forced to function without law enforcement for budgetary reasons. I did not like California, so I moved away. I am not saying these kids have that choice. Clearly there are places with higher levels of poverty and poor education and where children are hungry and their parents are perhaps suffering from addiction as well as other physical ailments. But I tell you this too, I have heard a man sing from his heart a song of gospel so moving and touching in that place that I cried. I was touched and I know he worked hard to find that voice and I know he practiced that song and he sang it well and I felt his spirit move my heart and my mind.  And this is why these children need better, because someday they will sing and someday they will make the world better. But its going to take work and we cannot give up and we must work together to engineer a solution and make changes where changes are required and let remain what does not require changing. I wish it were not so difficult. I wish everyone could get along and I wish everyone did not have to fight each other and I wish that no one would ever have to suffer alone.  Lately, I have been remembering the early 80s and old episodes of television, mostly because I cannot seem to find trousers that are not so skinny I feel uncomfortable wearing them. I found an old one that might fit in here. Bionic Woman and specifically the episode about not going off the reservation. Its creepy to think about. It was from a time period where Native Americans were in focus also. Somehow the concept really stuck and perhaps even my teachers would refer to it as I got older and all the kids all knew what it meant. Last week I witnessed a neighbor an older lady make the kids get into the garage because she was going to drive the car and she wanted all the kids to get into that garage so she would not have to worry if they were going to dart out into the street. It was totally hilarious and really made me laugh hard. The simple fact that kids are not grown ups helps to think about too. Adults have rights and freedoms, kids do too but not as many yet. Not saying they should be locked in jails, not at all. Infact the opposite. They should be free to play and not get into trouble. They should be guided and instructed and clothed and fed and loved.   Keep up the good work!  Some White Guy 

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF JUVENILE REHABILITATION CENTRES THAT WILL PSYCHOLOGICALLY INFLUENCE THE REFORMATION AMONG JUVNILES DELINQUENT IN ALL THE THREE SENTORIAL DISTRICT IN AKWA IBOM STATE

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Architectural design of a functional Juvenile rehabilitation centre provides a good psychological environment which will provide delinquents with the opportunities for living a normal disciplined life and a chance of learning some new skills and vocation in some specialized areas to reduce crime among the youth in the society. The aim of introducing the juvenile detention is for the reformation of character without inflicting punishment that will make them hardened. This study also proved it that the use of good Architectural design and good building components in the design of the juvenile rehabilitation centres will psychologically influence their way of life in our environment. The study shows that juvenile delinquency affects a certain group of people. The group of people affected are usually the youths because they are sensitive and adaptive to the environmental influence. It is also proven that many of the youths commit crime by impulse and immaturity act, this happens as a result of been mislead by a particular group of people or influence by the environment, maltreatment by their parents or guidance etc.

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The character of the built environment of juvenile rehabilitation centres directly impacts on the outcome of the rehabilitation process. The design of such centres should ensure that young offenders who pass through them do not come out more disoriented and hardened. The built environment of juvenile rehabilitation centres should therefore portray rehabilitation rather than retribution. Juvenile rehabilitation centres in Nigeria are in poor conditions and have been described as decaying, and places of punishment. This study was therefore conducted to evaluate the built environment of selected juvenile rehabilitation centres in Nigeria through visual survey, and Likert scale questionnaires containing nine attitude statements. The data was analysed using descriptive account, descriptive statistics, and ANOVA. The result shows that the centres were largely positively perceived with respect to the provision of basic amenities, while aspects relating to the image and visual character of the centres were perceived negatively by majority of the respondents. This suggests a deficit in their design. The result of ANOVA shows that there is no significant difference between respondents of the three juvenile rehabilitation centres (BTIK, BTII and KHRCJ) on four attitude statement while significant differences were obtained on five statements. The character and image of the built environment of these centres needs to be improved in order to give them a more positive outlook which will in turn culminate in more positive outcomes for the young offenders.

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The process of reintegrating juvenile delinquents to society from correctional facilities is as important as the process of rehabilitation. If the rehabilitation process is not conducted properly it would rather be difficult to control the reconvicted /recidivism rates. Hence the correctional methods must adhere to certain attributes relating to the rehabilitation process, one key aspect being the built environment of the correctional facilities. Humans by nature have an undeniable connection with their environment through physical, mental, emotional and spiritual means. This connection is what helps keep a balance within ourselves. Most of the time, unlike adults’ juvenile delinquents commit crimes without their consent. It is paramount that this is understood and they are attended with the required special attention in rehabilitation process. At stage of admission to the correctional facilities, these youngsters are more likely to be in a very weak state of mind, with the need of protection, self-value, freedom and to obtain the sense of belonginess in the society as they are reintroduced. This requires improvement of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills before leaving the correctional facility to avoid the reconviction /recidivism. The rehabilitation process influenced via architectural attributes followed at this research would be to understand level of lighting, usage of colours, enclosure of the space, outdoor-indoor relationships, level of privacy, architectural character of space and semiotics would lead to proper reintegration to the society. Keywords— Juvenile Delinquents, Rehabilitation, Architectural Attributes

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There is a growing concern with the growth and prevalence of Juvenile delinquents (JD) in rehabilitation centres in Kenya. Juvenile delinquency has become an intricate social problem that significantly influences all members and processes of a social structure. In January 2016, Eldoret Juvenile Remand Home alone had 155 juveniles which is its full capacity. It is against this background that this study examined psychotherapeutic interventions in behaviour modification of JD and recommended measures that would increase the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions in rehabilitation centers of JDs in Kenya. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of counseling on behaviour modification of JD in Eldoret and Kakamega rehabs. The area of study was Eldoret and Kakamega rehabs. The study adopted Merton Functional Theory of Juvenile Delinquency as the theoretical framework. The study adopted the descriptive and explanatory research survey designs. The target population was comprised of delinquents in Kakamega and Eldoret Rehabs, administrators, trainers and counselors in the rehabs and probation officers. A sample size of 149 respondents comprising of 127 JD, 13 trainers, 5 probation officers, 2 counselors and 2 administrators of the Eldoret and Kakamega rehabs participated in the study. Saturated sampling catered for the delinquents, probation officers, rehab administrators and trainers. Research instruments that were used in this study included questionnaires, interview schedule and document analysis. A Pilot study was carried out to ascertain validity and reliability of the instruments and a

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This study investigated the role of social welfare services on juvenile delinquency, using Gboko Local Government area of Benue state as a case study. This research employed the survey design. The target population for this study was all the inmates of Gboko children remand home, the social welfare department of the local government. 75 inmates are currently being housed at the facility, while a total number of 26 cases are filled at the social welfare department, 77 SSS 3 students of Government Secondary School and 103 SSS 3 students of Queens of the Rosary Secondary school Gboko, bringing the total number of the population to 280. Random sampling technique was used to select total number of 140 respondents. 28 respondents each were selected from the teachers, parents, students, inmates at the remand home, staff of the social welfare and parents. The Taro Yamane method formulated in 1967 was used to determine the sample size from the given population. Questionnaire and unstructured interviews were the research instruments used for the study. A self-designed questionnaire consisting of open-ended and close-ended questions was used. After collecting the data via questionnaire, the responses were collated and analysed. First the responses were counted, and presented with tables, pie and bar charts, the frequency of each response were converted to simple percentage and used to analyse the distribution of the responses. Based on the findings from the study, the researcher made the following conclusions; The prevalent rate of juvenile delinquency in Gboko is very high, as the findings shows that juveniles in Gboko indulge in alcohol, cultism, political thuggery, and rape.The common forms of juvenile delinquency in Gboko as revealed by the findings include; cultism and political thuggery. The identified causes of juvenile delinquency in Gboko include; peer influence, ignorance, drug influence and certain mental health challenges. Finally the research shows that the social welfare in Gboko do not live up to expectation, as they do not provide the required services. There impact is not felt in Gboko.

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As the desire for greater incarceration becomes increasingly apparent, our nation's correctional facilities are being used at unacceptable levels with conditions of overcrowding becoming unbearable. The quality of life has deteriorated as the offenders' human rights are vastly ignored. This project is intended to explore the correlation which is inherent between architecture and existing correctional ideologies. This thesis directs its concern to where crime begins-- at the juvenile level. The major investigation is to develop a quality architecture that creates and establishes an attitude of how architecture and architects can maximize in a positive way the potential and personal growth of the juvenile delinquents.

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Juvenile Correctional Facility Design That Encourages Rehabilitation

When young people are sent to a correctional facility and given the tools they need to be successful while there, they are more likely to lead happy, productive lives after incarceration.

By focusing on juvenile correctional facility design principles that are restorative, such as open community areas, daylighting, calming acoustics, and more, facility administrators in partnership with architects can foster rehabilitation and create spaces in which young people can thrive.

Why Rehabilitative Juvenile Correctional Facility Design Matters

The best correctional facility design is based on normative design principles, which play an important role in reducing recidivism rates . In other words, when your juvenile correctional facility looks and feels more like a camp or a school than a prison, rehabilitation is more likely.

In a traditional juvenile correctional facility, individual cells are placed along narrow corridors and overseen by staff in elevated glass control rooms. But that type of layout does little to encourage positive interactions between inmates and supervisors.

Young people are more likely to cooperate and communicate with staff and actively participate in therapeutic programs when they are housed in an open, positive, welcoming environment that focuses on reformation rather than punishment.

At the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro, California, HMC Architects partnered with another architectural design team to create a mix of secure areas and open community spaces. When juveniles break a rule, they are separated from the community and taken to a secure room. Through good behavior, they earn their way back into the community.

The Center also makes use of open staff stations to increase the comfort levels of both the juveniles and staff. The control stations are placed so that supervisors have excellent visibility and can intervene quickly, before conflicts escalate to violence. In fact, due to the installation of these control stations, violent incidents have decreased dramatically. Moreover, fewer violent incidents mean juveniles are less likely to receive additional infractions on their records, which makes it easier for them to find work or get accepted into academic programs after release.

These spaces improve the psychological well-being of inmates by promoting positivity and the effective communication skills juveniles need to turn their lives around. They also improve staff effectiveness and morale. Today, there is a waitlist of applicants vying for supervisor positions at the facility because the physical environment allows them to create positive change and the safety standards are so high.

The Most Effective Juvenile Correctional Facility Design Considerations

The layout of your facility, combined with the materials you use and the ambiance you create, can have a positive impact on rehabilitation rates. To create the most supportive environments, consider the following:

• Open Communal Areas: Increasing the size or number of community spaces will make the facility feel more open and encourage juveniles to leave their rooms and interact with peers and counselors.
• Flexible Furnishings: Modular chairs, tables, and sofas in communal rooms invite flexibility of use. Chairs can be pushed to the center of the room for group discussions or arranged in clusters to allow for one-on-one or smaller group counseling.
• Daylighting: Floor-to-ceiling windows and skylights allow natural light into spaces to promote a calming, less confined atmosphere.
• Central Control Stations: Supervisor stations placed at ground level and at the center of dayrooms and cafeterias allow inmates to feel more comfortable talking to staff. Counselors and supervisors can still keep a close eye on inmates while also helping to promote more casual, positive, face-to-face interactions.
• Outdoor Spaces: Designing secure outdoor gardens, greenhouses, athletic fields or courts, and eating areas can improve attitudes. When juveniles spend time outside, especially in green, non-threatening spaces, they feel less trapped. Moreover, these spaces can be designed around sports, outdoor horticulture, and other programs that teach juveniles important skills they can use after they’re released.
• Durable, Familiar Materials: Hard furnishings, such as tables, should be made from scratch-resistant materials to prevent defacing and vandalism. However, they should also be familiar to juveniles and not appear “institutional.” For example, acrylic tables are durable without looking cold or dreary.
• Peaceful Features: Facility interiors should promote a sense of calm. Choose soft LED lighting rather than harsh fluorescents and include positive, inspirational artwork that ideally reflects local or regional character. At Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center, inmates were enlisted to paint murals, making the space more personal and dynamic.
• Calming Acoustics: A juvenile correctional facility can get noisy. By including sound-absorbing materials on the walls, you can prevent noise from traveling and from hindering communication. When inmates and staff can hear instructions clearly, they are less likely to need further instructions or become frustrated.
• Convenience: The design team for Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center also created a courtroom inside the facility to allow inmates to appear before judges on-site. Consultation rooms were designed, too, so that juveniles and their lawyers can discuss their cases and update court officials on their progress. Not only does this benefit juveniles in the facility, but also it saves taxpayer money and correctional facility resources.
• Personalized Details: You can empower juveniles to make spaces their own by allowing them to re-arrange furniture and even choose their own bedding color. When young inmates are presented with options, they are less likely to vandalize their rooms and may feel more comfortable living in the facility.

These design details not only encourage rehabilitation, but also, when integrated with existing security standards, they help ensure that staff and inmates feel safe in the space.

The Benefits of Effective Juvenile Correctional Facility Design

Beyond reducing recidivism rates and discouraging violence in correctional facilities, normative design may also be more cost-effective. According to a June 2018 Urban Institute report on community-based alternatives to juvenile incarceration, the state of Virginia “spent $15 on youth incarceration for every $1 spent on community-based services in 2016 at a staggering cost of more than $170,000 per youth per year.” By creating more supportive facilities that promote juvenile rehabilitation, states could save hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

Creating a juvenile correctional facility that breaks away from traditional prison design is an easier process when you hire an experienced design firm to handle every detail. HMC Architects understands how to design a correctional facility around the needs of inmates and staff. From Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center to the San Diego County Women’s Detention Facility we have designed spaces that promote rehabilitation and help reduce recidivism rates.

We specialize in designs that encourage rehabilitation rather than punishment, so that juvenile inmates can lead more productive, fulfilling lives after release. If you’re ready to learn more about juvenile correctional facility design, contact HMC Architects today. For answers to questions about correctional facility design and design of other civic buildings, email James Krueger, AIA, Design Principal , directly.

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• Published on July 27, 2016

When it comes to urbanism these days, people’s attention is increasingly turning to Moscow . The city clearly intends to become one of the world’s leading megacities in the near future and is employing all necessary means to achieve its goal, with the city government showing itself to be very willing to invest in important urban developments (though not without some criticism ).

A key player in this plan has been the Moscow Urban Forum . Although the forum’s stated goal is to find adequate designs for future megacities, a major positive side-effect is that it enables the city to organize the best competitions, select the best designers, and build the best urban spaces to promote the city of Moscow. The Forum also publishes research and academic documents to inform Moscow’s future endeavors; for example, Archaeology of the Periphery , a publication inspired by the 2013 forum and released in 2014, notably influenced the urban development on the outskirts of Moscow, but also highlighted the importance of combining urban development with the existing landscape.

Concluding earlier this month, the 2016 edition of the Moscow Urban Forum focused on smart cities and the impact of technology on the ways we interact with people and use public infrastructure and civic spaces. The 2016 Forum invited city officials, urbanists, and architectural practitioners – including Yuri Grigoryan from Project MEGANOM ; Pei Zhu from Studio Pei Zhu ; Hani Rashid from Asymptote ; Reinier de Graaf from OMA ; Yosuke Hayano from MAD Architects ; and Kengo Kuma from Kengo Kuma Architects – to share about their knowledge and experiences in urban design. With the city looking forward to the built results of the latest Forum, we take a look back at some of the major developments in Moscow that have emerged in the past five years.

1) Gorky Park and Garage Museum

In 2010 the city government decided to improve Muscovites’ urban environment and create public spaces, and Gorky Park was the first project of note. The Russian equivalent of Central Park, it used to attract masses of tourists to its amusement park, but no residents would spend time there. Its reconstruction began in 2011 and featured infrastructure for strolling, sport, work, culture and leisure.

Inside the park lies the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art , a landmark building from the Brezhnev communist era which was renovated and transformed by OMA in 2015. The Dutch firm kept the original structure “as found,” only repairing elements from its prefabricated concrete walls – often clad with brick and decorative green tiles. Instead, the redesign focused on a double-skin facade of polycarbonate plastic that enclosed the original structure and preserved it from decay.

2) Zaryadye Park, Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Due to open in 2018, Zaryadye Park designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro is probably one of Moscow ’s most cutting-edge projects. Located next to the Kremlin, the Red Square, and St Basil’s Cathedral, the project embodies what the architects calls “Wild Urbanism.” The project notably includes four artificial microclimates that mimic Russian landscape typologies: the steppe, the forest, the wetland and tundra. “It is a park for Russia made from Russia,” as Charles Renfro explains , in that “it samples the natures of Russia and merges them with the city, to become a design that could only happen here. It embodies a wild urbanism, a place where architecture and landscape are one.”

3) Moscow Riverfront, Project Meganom

Russian firm Project Meganom has also designed an ambitious project for Moscow ’s riverfront. Their masterplan also aims for a dialogue between the built and natural environment. A series of linear green spaces follow the river, and lines for pedestrians, cyclists, cars, and public transport are clearly delineated, improving the use of the public squares. River embankments are also transformed to function as areas for activities, communication, education and creativity nodes for public gathering.

4) Krymskaya Embankment, Wowhaus Architecture Bureau

Wowhaus Architecture Bureau recently transformed the 4-lane road at Krymskaya Embankment into a landscape park that connects Gorky Park with Krymsky bridge. The area used to be deserted, but is now reactivated with distinct transit and sport zones, as well as pavilions for artists’ exhibitions. Wave-shaped bicycle ramps, paths, and benches feature on the artificial landscape, which is also used for sledding, skiing, and skating in the winter.

5) Hermitage Museum and ZiL Tower in Moscow, Asymptote Architecture

New York architectural firm Asymptote Architecture are currently building two projects, a 150-meter residential tower and a satellite facility for St Petersburg’s well-known Hermitage Museum , where modern and contemporary art collections will be displayed. Situated in one of Moscow ’s oldest industrial areas, Asymptote’s buildings will lie in place of a Constructivist factory – which explains why the museum was reportedly inspired by El Lissitzky's "Proun" painting, as the terrace interior clearly shows.

6) “My Street”

“My Street” is the largest-scale program led by Moscow ’s government. The project aims to create about 50 kilometers of new pedestrian zones within the city center and periphery. The extensive program aims to solve parking issues, renovate street facades, and repair sidewalks and walkways with delimited areas for public transports, cars, cyclists, and pedestrians. “My Street” also requires a strong governance strategy and coordination; led by the Strelka Institute’s consultation arm KB Strelka , the project also involves 17 Russian and foreign architecture practices that were all individually in charge of one street, square or group of streets. Notable architects include the German firm Topotek 1 , the Dutch group West 8 , and the Russian firm Tsimailo , Lyashenko and Partners.

7) Moscow Metro

Moscow Metro is an architectural masterpiece that has been elaborated on since the 1920s. Its stations from the Stalin era are known for their unique designs with high ceilings, elaborate chandeliers and fine granite and marble cladding. To ensure that Moscow Metro remains an emblem of the city’s urban culture and powerful transportation system, the city’s government organized various competitions for the renovation of some Metro stations. Russian-based practice Nefa Architects was chosen to redesign Moscow’s Solntsevo Metro Station, while Latvian firm U-R-A will transform Novoperedelkino Subway Station . New stations are also being built, including two stations by Russian firms Timur Bashkayev Architectural Bureau and Buromoscow which should be completed by the end of 2018.

8) Luzhniki Stadium

Luzhniki Stadium is Moscow ’s main venue for sporting and cultural events. With Russia hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup , the stadium should reflect Moscow’s intent to become a leading megacity, which is why $540 million has been spent on construction works. Its renovation mainly focuses on the roof and seating areas, and the capacity is planned to increase up to 81,000 seats. Works will be completed by 2017.

Find out more information and talks on Moscow’s urban development and the future of megacities on Moscow Urban Forum’s YouTube channel .

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