Still stirring men's blood - the Burnham Plan for Chicago Centennial View full entry
The Tate's gigantic turbine hall will host an exhibition on ten international cities. Guardian View full entry
British cities have become very clever at designing beautiful buildings that people actually want. Telegraph View full entry
Monu Magazine has released their newest issue, Beautiful Urbanism, exploring discussion on how to reclaim the term "beauty" in the urban context. There is also a call for entries for Monu 7: 2nd rate Urbanism, inviting articles on the characteristic peripheral life and "generic urbanism" of... View full entry
Those idyllic aerial shots of Chicago's lakefront brought to you by organizers of the city's Olympic bid are dazzling, seductive and, in at least one significant respect, profoundly misleading. Coverage and critique by Blair Kamin for the Chicago Tribune | in the forum View full entry
The "bulldozing bully" Robert Moses who parted the urban fabric of New York City gets a fresh look with three new exhibitions of his legacy. NYT View full entry
According to the BBC, "The French cabinet has adopted a bill to create a legal right to housing, after a series of high-profile protests by campaigners." If approved by parliament, "the bill will legally oblige local authorities to provide accommodation for the homeless from the end of next... View full entry
The Soviets were known for their brutalist architecture, but they got funky with their Bus Stops. View full entry
It’s a common enough thought among city drivers inching through traffic: Everyone around me came from the suburbs, making my life miserable. But it’s wrong, because more than half the drivers who crowd into Manhattan each workday come from the five boroughs. NYT View full entry
"Think how discouraging it must feel to have been approved for parole but remain in prison because you have no address to be released to..." Visit View full entry
Kiss the Mediterranean goodbye. Ditto the Red Sea and its wonderland of coral reefs and exotic sea life. And prepare for the day when San Francisco has a gritty new suburb: Los Angeles. NYT View full entry
New York City, with its rich history of public playgrounds, is on the verge of a bold experiment in the way children play, one that could accelerate the trend away from monkey bars, swings and seesaws used by generations of city children. NYT View full entry
Twenty years ago, Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. awoke one morning and realized he was the chief urban designer of his city, or so the story goes. He promptly wrote a letter to Jaquelin Robertson, then Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, proposing the Mayors'... View full entry
National Geographic's "Sudden City". ...Dubai is also a rare success story in the Middle East, a region with a history of failure and stagnation. Abdulrahman al Rashid, a Saudi journalist and director of the Al Arabiya news channel, put it this way: "Dubai is putting pressure on the rest of the... View full entry
The NY Times reports on the strong market for penthouses, and how developers are experimenting with ways to build more. Voila, a landscape born of class division. View full entry
