Faced with the devastation of New Orleans and the despair of Hurricane Katrina victims, Frank Stronach bought them a $2.4 million farm.nyt View full entry

Mary Pattillo , professor of sociology and African-American studies at Northwestern University and author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City discusses the way class differences play out within African American urban neighborhoods. WNYC View full entry

The Baghdad Wall – mentioned on Archinect here – has come under fire, is being publicly protested, and may be abandoned entirely. More at the New York Times. View full entry

RSVP required (see below) - limited capacityGreat Streets Panel Discussion #3 Monday 4/30 The 'A' list of Los Angeles' landscape and urban designers are getting together to discuss:The Park Bench, the Bicycle and the Black Walnut: Designing the Architecture of Our Most Accessible Public Space... View full entry

"Russia plans to build the world's longest tunnel, a transport and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65 billion project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and electricity from Siberia." A 3,700 mile long transit corridor "would run in three sections to link the... View full entry

A village near Pyeongtaek in South Korea has become subject to an eviction order to allow for an expansion of the neighbouring US army base, Camp Humphreys. BBC View full entry

...is the most controversial road in Brazil. At 1,100-miles long it is "the main north-south artery of the Amazon rainforest," built in the 1970s "to open up the jungle to colonisation - forgetting, of course, that many indigenous Indians lived there already. It has become a frontier of... View full entry

Growing demand for "naturally raised, local meat products" also needs an architecture for local slaughter, but corporate agriculture has consolidated slaughterhouses into just a few facilities. Small farmers must often drive for hours to get their animals to slaughter (which is not good for CO... View full entry

As Hampstead Garden Suburb - home to film stars, financiers and royalty - marks its centenary, Clive Aslet wonders if it's time to revive the utopian dream. Telegraph View full entry

In 1893 and 1933, Chicago hosted World's Fairs that drew tens of millions of spectators and thrust the city into the international spotlight with grandiose displays of architecture, culture and technology. The 2016 Olympic Games would provide another chance to show off for the world, but on an... View full entry

Beijing's may be getting today's headlines, but China's other major city is setting up some major infrastructure changes of its own. BusinessWeek View full entry

As Beijing gears up to host the 2008 Olympic Games, it is anxious to project itself as a modern world-class capital. A weak legal system and collusion between real estate developers and local officials has, however, resulted in the wanton demolition of large swathes of the historical city. Up to... View full entry

"Cities are predictors of the future", OMA-partner Reinier de Graaf told ErasmusPC in an interview about the city. Although cities are the locus of the poor, the heartbeat of the city comes before the rest. ErasmusPC View full entry

Reg from WMMNA visited Oslo and the School of Architecture, and reports on mobility, urban indicators and participatory urbanism. Take a look View full entry

UC Berkeley landscape architects and urban designers beat out Harvard and UI for the Hines Prize organized by the Urban Land Institute. The site given was East 1st Street between Alameda and Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. ULI site has PDF downloads and lots of info | Curbed LA |... View full entry