Culture

Urban Planning & Covid 19 Creating Resilient Public Spaces

December 15, 2020

Photo: Dor Pazuelo

A conversation featuring Jacqueline Parish of Zurich’s municipal Planning Department and landscape architect and urban designer, Robin
Winogrond, co-founder of Studio Vulkan Landscape Architecture in Zurich, City Architect of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Yoav David and landscape architect, 
Matanya Sack of Sack-Reicher Architects in Tel Aviv

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