In an attempt to reduce car traffic by 40% in 2020, the city of Paris has partnered with an advertising firm to offer cheap short term bike rentals. Would it work in NYC? NYT View full entry
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg hit the church circuit on Sunday in a last minute effort to tout his congestion pricing proposal before today's federally imposed deadline. NYT | AP | NYDailyNews | NY1 | TNRA Blog | previously 1 | 2 View full entry
In a move that will affect urban planning and new development, Kiwi regional and district councils are starting to address the concept of 'planned retreats' from housing, roads and other infrastructure along low-lying pieces of coastline, says a Wellington analyst. stuff.co.nz This planning will... View full entry
Mayor Bloomberg is trying to recruit world-renowned Danish architect Jan Gehl, who wants to ban most cars from Times Square, and raise the price of street parking. NYDaily | PlaNYC View full entry
“I realized that we in the Third World are not going to catch up to the developed countries for two or three hundred years,” [former mayor of Bogotá] recalls. “If we defined our success just in terms of income per capita, we would have to accept ourselves as second- or... View full entry
Recently I posted about all the crazyness happening as preamble to the future Great Park in the O.C. Now comes news that Lennar Development Corp, the developer charged with building the park and adjoining new residences, one of the largest home builders anywhere, has a top secret (sort of) "Logic... View full entry
Beijing is planning to ban a million cars for two weeks, testing the clean air for the 2008 Olympics. Chinese has spent around 15 billion dollars on a massive pollution clean-up for the Olympics, but air quality remains a key concern. yahoo! green View full entry
The Storefront in NYC, in conjunction with the Forum for Urban Design & The New York Bike Share Project, is organizing an exhibition that examines Bike-Share programs around the world, with presentations, a free public bike-rental experiment, and a public design charette. Action starts July... View full entry
The ongoing Atlantic Yards debate is refreshed with the recent release of internal documents that reveal additional reasons Brooklynites shouldn't trust Forest City Ratner. NYT | previously 1 | 2 View full entry
A community design adviser critiques a development in Western England. BBC Video View full entry
This is a story about a neighbourhood worth celebrating. Where the stores are small and unspectacular, the sidewalks are broken, and there's an exuberance for the mingling of ideas and people. Eccentricity rules. Globe and Mail View full entry
The great American highway, showcased in Today's Pictures @ Slate. View full entry
In Los Angeles alone, billions of public and private dollars have been lavished on transit-oriented projects such as Hollywood & Vine, with more than 20,000 residential units approved within a quarter mile of transit stations between 2001 and 2005. New research shows people prefer cars... View full entry
The porcupine skylines of the world’s great commercial hubs are in constant flux. Attenuated offices pierce the smog, while street grids are bounded ever more tightly by great planes of glass, steel and marble, the material language of the corporation. Yet despite this international boom... View full entry
The ideal city has been the impossible dream for as long as there has been civilisation – a word that itself derives from civitas, the city. From Plato to Thomas More, Leonardo da Vinci to Le Corbusier, every genius has imagined the ideal city but none has got anywhere close to achieving... View full entry
