Today, President Barack Obama announced the following White House posts; Adolfo Carrion, White House Director of Urban Affairs and Derek Douglas, Special Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs. Just to summarize we now have an urban planner and an economist respectively, directing the... View full entry
Low Income Housing in Dubai. No big surprise here, but it seems as if the UAE bubble has finally hit the fan.Luxury Property Blog "It appears that the luxury property developers in Dubai are finally beginning to come to terms with reality" View full entry
"In 2005, as rising property values reduced affordable-housing stock in inner-city neighborhoods, suburban poverty, in raw numbers, topped urban poverty for the first time. The trend will continue" says Miller-McCune View full entry
They are under-advocated, under-funded and under-appreciated, argues Martha Schwartz; but Sarah Gaventas thinks this view is out of date and out of touch. BD View full entry
The crash of 2008 continues to reverberate loudly nationwide—destroying jobs, bankrupting businesses, and displacing homeowners. But already, it has damaged some places much more severely than others. On the other side of the crisis, America’s economic landscape will look very... View full entry
The Mumbai shanty town featured in the film Slumdog Millionaire offers a better model than does western architecture for ways to house a booming urban population in the developing world, Prince Charles said yesterday.GuardianA counterpoint View full entry
Studying how ants manage traffic flows could provide the basis for a system of driverless cars running on ant traffic algorithms. Scientists have long been fascinated with the ability of ants to organize colonial activities in patterns as sophisticated as any urban engineer's megalopolis... View full entry
Entrepreneur Mark Gorton (of Limewire fame) wants to do for people what he already helped do for files: move them from here to there in the most efficient way possible using open-source tools. The top-down culture of public planning stands to benefit by employing methods he's lifting from the... View full entry
As the government pumps more money into the system, a growing web of high-speed lines carrying sleek bullet trains between Spain's major urban areas is leading Spaniards to abandon commercial airlines so quickly that domestic flights carried 20 percent fewer people last year. That's big news in a... View full entry
The Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University discusses the possibilities of sustainable development and urbanization in the 21st Century.Watch View full entry
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As the Israeli army advances into urban density, new warfare methods are practiced by both battling sides. NY Times article. Related essay by Eyal Weizman "The Art of War: Deleuze, Guattari, Debord and the Israeli Defense Force." A related previous discussion. View full entry
A new post from the folks at Airoots explores the importance of preserving street layout in any plan for "slum redevelopment". Incremental development as opposed to "slum redevelopment" which takes such an approach they argue is important because this organic street layout of slums is a physical... View full entry
"Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm confirmed Monday that the younger Bush is seeking to have a gate placed somewhere along the entrance to streets leading to his future Preston Hollow address." thinkprog View full entry
Recent trips to Dubai, Shanghai and Hong Kong leave Karrie Jacobs pondering the upsides of the West's approach to urban planning and development. Boomtown Blues View full entry
