2024-05-13T01:54:07-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150407742/university-of-miami-s-school-of-architecture-to-design-smart-silica-city-concept-for-booming-guyana Josh Niland 2023-12-12T11:53:00-05:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/12/126b8e59af0a0c642719c1a4af9a31dc.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/5208403/university-of-miami" target="_blank">University of Miami School of Architecture</a> has announced its participation in a master planning project that will help develop a <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/578224/smart-city" target="_blank">smart city</a> in the capital region of Guyana, South America.</p> <p>Both students and faculty from the school will join with others in UM&rsquo;s Advanced Study of the Americas program, Herbert Business School, School of Nursing and Health Studies, and Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science to realize the project, which leverages their expertise in the fields of resilient design, sustainable architecture, climate science, nature systems, technology, and more.</p> <p>'Silica City' is an 11,000-acre planned community of 60,000 people near the Guyana International Airport with residential plots, a city center, an 'Innovation Village' area, and <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/566665/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank">AI</a>-bolstered infrastructure. Preliminary design work has already begun via a new 12-student studio that was taught in the fall by former School of Architecture dean Jose A. Gelabert-Navia, who said: &ldquo;You cannot devel...</p>