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Penn students present work to help rebuild Ukrainian city

With the two-year anniversary of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine looming, city planners begin to strategize solutions to rebuild, sustainably.
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As the two-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine looms, city planners consider reconstruction efforts. This fall, a team of graduate students from the Weitzman School of Design developed a plan to rebuild parts of Bucha, a small city north west of Kyiv. They recently presented their work to members of the U.S. Department of State and the Ukrainian ambassador in Washington, D.C.
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