UCLA students deconstruct the myth, started by Robert Bruegmann, that LA is denser than NY.Metropolis Mag | Previous | Related View full entry
Mall, the once triumphant model of the American suburb landscape becomes the hybrid programmatic gated-community of the future. A place where the city comes to the suburbs...NYT View full entry
Mayor Bloomberg has a message for New Yorkers who don't like surveillance cameras: Get real. "It's just ridiculous people who object to using technology," the mayor said, adding that he had not talked with anyone in London who wasn't "thrilled" at the presence of security cameras in their... View full entry
For grand projects - building a new town or rebuilding a city neighborhood - part of the challenge is phasing. Which elements of a grand plan should be built in the first phase? What should be deferred to later phases? The Washington Post View full entry
I recently completed a series of guest columns for MetroMode, a Detroit region online magazine. Topics range from recontextualizing abandoned structures to a proposed borough system for Metropolitan Detroit. Read all five entries here. View full entry
“'Sound in the environment, especially that made by other people, has overwhelmingly been considered purely as a matter of volume and generally in negative terms, as both intrusive and undesirable,' said Dr Bill Davies of Salford University, who is leading the Engineering and Physical... View full entry
As an exhibition opening today at the Municipal Art Society reminds us, Jane Jacobs did not believe that planners could ever restore life to American cities. Instead she put her faith in the chaos of urban life, in diversity, in people - the grocery store owner, the young mother, the child... View full entry
Cameras survey Chicago's toughest blocks, but do they reduce crime? | A closer look at logic behind S.F.'s anti-crime surveillance | Tens of thousands of CCTV cameras, yet 80% of crime unsolved | Shotgun Cams for Urban Surveillance | Drones Taking a Bite Out of Crime | British troops accused of... View full entry
ArchNewsNow brings subscribers a pair of perspectives on the urbanism of Portland, Oregon. The CATO Institute says that the city doesn't work. The Congress for New Urbanism argues against the CATO report. CATO vs. CNU View full entry
The city of Amsterdam announced Thursday that it will invest up to 15 million euros to help clean up its famous red light district by buying brothels there. AFP View full entry
In China, a sprawling lakefront is redeveloped with an eye toward the past. NY Times View full entry
Michael Sorkin offers his critique of Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing scheme, part of his PlaNYC. A security camera on every corner is not your pal. ArchRecord | previously 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 View full entry
The latest issue (#07) of Monu magazine is out, dedicated to 2nd Rate Urbanism. Have a look, and be advised: mudot - magazine 'on urban documentation, opinion and theory' will be the new follow up publication to monu headed by former monu editor Thomas Soehl. As of the next issue Bernd Upmeyer... View full entry
City of Sound posts a very interesting take on the effects of the APEC security zone on the urban and informational fabric of Sydney. "Actually, it is of course fascinating: I overhear people talking of going to actually see The Fence, as if it were a new temporary attraction, and when I visited... View full entry
Ancient squatters may have been the world's first suburbanites. Immigrants likely proved more powerful than central rulers in shaping ancient metropolis in Syria. sci-american View full entry