Sustainability, livability and land use are the words we are interested about for describing a project. What we often avoid are the matters of profitability, capital gains and all other externals that go along with a project construction. Architecture has a tight connection with economy and actually every building directly affects the economy of the city. Architects profession, are actually like mediators between different specialties.
Real estates, the community space where the building is located, housing bubble, opportunity costs, economic cycle, mortgage loan, commodities, investments, supplies…More of each of these in the link bellow.

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