"African drumming is wonderful for the first four hours, but after that, it's pure, unadulterated noise. We couldn't see straight anymore," said a new Harlem resident. yahoo View full entry
Spatial segregation in the west bank has been taken to a new level. A road with a Palestinian side and an Israeli side separated by 10' tall concrete wall (faux finished as Jerusalem stone) is being built near Jerusalem - no they are not equal, but they are seperate. Not like this will bring... View full entry
Remember reading about Flood Maps a couple months back? More Google Map mashups are popping up all the time. We like Rotten Neighbor, which Curbed LA calls "an excellent way to find parties", and Walk Score, which calculates the walkability of a neighborhood. My personal favorite though is Global... View full entry
All New York Architects are late to work. Blame it on the rain. Many walk Williamsburg bridge for the first time, totally negating effect of morning shower. Subway trains still aren't running normally and those surfing MTA website for service updates are unable to access the page. Just great. NYT View full entry
Cities across America will gain temporary new downtown parks for a few hours on Friday, September 21, thanks to a public project sponsored by the Trust for Public Land. TPL | previously | PARK(ing) Day 2006 | first intervention, 2005 View full entry
Founded in 1963 and housed on their Clinton Hill campus, the Pratt Center for Community Development is billed as "the first university-based advocacy planning and design center" in the US. Today, the center is a nexus of public-interest problem solvers, and its interdisciplinary expertise is... View full entry
When the capital of the Middle Kingdom hosts the summer Olympics next year, nothing will be left to chance or spontaneity. Image-conscious and averse to PR gaffes, Chinese leaders are staging a grand rehearsal to fine-tune a coming out party into the world. IPS View full entry
The collapse of the eight-lane steel-deck truss bridge last week in Minneapolis focused attention on deficiencies in many older spans around the nation. Despite these troubles, engineers say, new ideas and technologies are making bridges safer — not to mention longer and more beautiful... View full entry
Brooklyn is exploding with great neighborhood blogs. WNYC talks with the editors of three of the most prolific. View full entry
James S. Russell, Bloomberg's U.S. architecture critic, on the plan:"Why would Columbia hire such a talented urbanist as Piano and then allow him to produce something so bland?" Bloomberg | The Piano/SOM Plan | Community Developed Rival 197-A Plan View full entry
The old and the new: Can a 400-year-old city change? Do its inhabitants want it to? How much can a tourist town that lives off its heritage welcome change? NYT View full entry
By luring Western institutions like the Louvre and Yale, Abu Dhabi aims to become a global arts center. Newsweeek | Q&A with the ADTA's Cultural Consigliere | previously 1 | 2 View full entry
Bryan Finoki takes on politics of shit in the Middle East, where safe water/sewage becomes a weapon exploited by all sides. Finoki concludes by advocating, "Using environmental justice as a launching pad for greater political change and conflict zone resolution." subtopia View full entry
“The towers are really just giant stacks of money mostly bridging an upper class exodus from Mexico City with the moneyed highways of commerce running in all directions throughout San Diego, pressurizing the nexus of one of the busiest and already most economically polarized borders in the... View full entry
"What they (city officials) want to see is a Dominick's and sushi joints and a Starbucks (gentrification)." yahoo View full entry