Friday, August 8:

• Guggenheim Bullies Journalist: Molly Crabapple reports for Vice on inhumane immigrant labor conditions on Saadiyat island in the UAE, where a new arm of the Guggenheim (and Louvre, and NYU) is being built. The Guggenheim holds its cards close and skirts responsibility when Crabapple pushes for answers.
• Controversial new app will keep you away from "sketchy" areas: "SketchFactor" rates an area's "sketchiness" based on crowd-sourced local data. Critics are worried that the app will amplify racial profiling and encourage stereotyping.

Thursday, August 7:

• Gentrification and the Persistence of Poor Minority Neighborhoods: Harvard sociologists identify another determinant in the gentrification debate: racial composition. Their report, focusing on Chicago, found that a neighborhood's economic redevelopment depended on certain thresholds of black and white residents.
• Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called for the suspension of the Israeli Architects’ Association from an international architectural body: Tutu asked Israeli architects to not get involved in any project associated with the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Wednesday, August 6:

• Humanitarian Crisis Emerges in Ukraine: Power, water and health workers are in short supply, making Ukrainian urban centers even more dangerous during bouts of violence.
• UberPool: you can now carpool and split fares with Uber: Uber adds carpooling to its transit options. The same day, Lyft announced its own carpooling option, Lyft Line.
• Water Crisis in Toledo, OH Spurs Calls for Restrictions on Use of Fertilizers: Excessive fertilizer run-off caused a giant algae bloom in Lake Erie, carrying dangerous amounts of the microcystin toxin to local cities' taps.

Tuesday, August 5:

• Martha Stewart in the age of drone photography: What Martha Stewart's love of drone photography says about the popular opinion of unmanned aircraft systems.
• Denmark's cage-free zoo will put humans in captivity: Bjarke Ingels Group's design hides humans in the landscape, to view animals from inside a boulder or behind a bamboo patch. Update: More details on BIG's cage-free “Zootopia” redesign

Monday, August 4:

• LA to Revamp City's 70 Year Old Zoning Code: For comparison, LA's first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway, opened in 1940. Contradictions in the city's zoning and building codes run rampant, prompting city planning officials to initiate a complete revision, via the Re:Code LA project, due for completion in 2017.
• Monuments Men: The Quest to Save Syria's History: Der Spiegel reports on the men trying to save Syria's art and architecture amidst civil war.
• Musk will build SpaceX launchpad in Texas: The world's first commercial rocket launchpad will bring an estimated 300 jobs and $85 million of capital investment into Brownsville, TX's economy.
• New "DEAD PRIZE" launched by Cameron Sinclair: The DEAD, as in "Detrimental Engineering Architecture and Design", Prize is meant to establish a standard of worst-practices in the professions, to better understand and prevent ecological harm.