A void deck typically found under apartment blocks in Singapore. The void deck occupies the ground level, while apartments are usually on the second floor onwards. Sometimes, events like Malay weddings, Chinese weddings or even funeral wakes are held in such places. Void decks also facilitate the... View full entry

Editor Nathan Gardels, of New Perspective Quarterly interviews Mike Davis who talks about Pandemics and the Planet of Slums. Editor Nathan Gardels, of New Perspective Quarterly interviews Mike Davis who talks about Pandemics and the Planet of Slums. Read View full entry

Economist Paul Romer unveils a bold idea: "charter cities," city-scale administrative zones governed by a coalition of nations. Economist Paul Romer unveils a bold idea: "charter cities," city-scale administrative zones governed by a coalition of nations. TED Talks View full entry

Councils in deprived areas of England to get £50,000 each to turn boarded-up shops into art galleries or community centres Ministers today announced a £3m fund to help revive English high streets hit by the recession. The money will be shared between some of England's hardest-hit areas... View full entry

Moving Cities has a good three-part series up right now on the hutongs in Beijing and their continual disappearance to make way for China's rapid urban development -- “where have the memory masochists gone to?” and why has “the topic of the disappearance of the hutongs... View full entry

Ben Fry, infographic artist and co-creator of Processing, has created a map of the USA (minus AK and HI), consisting of the 26 million individual road segments across the nation. The result is quite fascinating.Ben Fry, infographic artist and co-creator of Processing, has created a map of the USA... View full entry

The BBC visits one of the world's biggest refugee camps.The BBC visits one of the world's biggest refugee camps. The Dadaab camp, (which lies on a dusty patch of land close to Kenya's border with Somalia.) wasd designed to hold about 90,000 people, but now gives shelter to more than three times... View full entry

Conflictive urbanism in Dharavi: the dialectic of mega-projects and mega-resistances Abitare reports. Conflictive urbanism in Dharavi: the dialectic of mega-projects and mega-resistances. Abitare reports on some recent work by a group of 16 students from the MSc: Building and Urban Design in... View full entry

Why Richard Florida's honeymoon is over...Richard Florida arrived two years ago as the toast of Toronto. Today, his critics argue he is a glib salesman and elitist. How did such a sweet marriage go wrong?They say he's a huckster. He shrugs. "I made the decision to build my dialogue around economic... View full entry

It was the most beautiful river park in the world, says Linda Cox, until in 1949, the State Legislature narrowly decided to build a high-speed highway through the Esplanade, to alleviate what supporters called “disgraceful” traffic conditions. WBUR (read/listen) View full entry

The authorities in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) have reduced water supplies by 30% as it faces one of the worst shortages in its history. The authorities in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) have reduced water supplies by 30% as it faces one of the worst shortages in its history. The fear... View full entry

Each plastic triangle represents a block where there have been three or more home foreclosures. When it came to representing the sprawling nature of the foreclosure crisis in New York City, the artist Damon Rich figured out that the best thing to do was to shrink it down to size. NYT View full entry

Vishaan Chakrabarti (Exec. Vice President at Related, and former Director of the Manhattan Office for the NY Dept of City Planning) delivers a passionately written commentary about the stimulus, "shovel ready", and America's long-term infrastructure planning--- encouraging us to imagine a country... View full entry

Everyone knows that Phoenix has a huge sprawl problem. But now transit-oriented development is on the upswing in this Sun Belt metropolis. In December, the Phoenix region opened one of the most ambitious transit projects in recent U.S. history: a 20-mile light rail line with 28 stops serving three... View full entry

In the School of Architecture of Paris-la-Villette, exists a Post graduate teaching CITIES:MOBILITY/NATURE. It has as ambition to teach how to design at urban/architectural scales integrating new parameters of the cities with a specific sustainable approach around new conditions of mobility and... View full entry