While you are down this month sauntering along the border for the OTRA/Another symposium, make sure to go check out Rob Neuwirth who will be giving a presentation at SD State on the legitimacy of squatter development. Details:making the case for squatters … Robert Neuwirth... View full entry
The LA city council is considering the go ahead TONIGHT for a study to build a 24 acre park over the hollywood freeway. This is more exciting then the cornfields park as a bold urban move. Hope the city holds an open competion for the park! Estimated costs are $200/sf = $209m wow. View full entry
It may have been a "scattergun" of a speech, but his Local Government Association address on Monday was also vintage Paul Keating and sprayed across familiar territory: the shoddiness of NSW planning, the shadiness of its politicians, the rapaciousness of its developers, the shabbiness of its... View full entry
SOLiD architectural design and Sprocket Design Build announce the opening of "Building New Ideas," an exhibition featuring the work of eight emerging architectural firms working at the forefront of Denver's internationally renowned design scene... These mixed-media installations are certain to... View full entry
See notacornfield's photos of, LA Cornfield before it was taken down. It is a current hot topic in and around Los Angeles because of the recent proposals and moves made for its site. Two weeks ago. View full entry
Former prime minister Paul Keating says Sydney could look like a grassless and treeless Tokyo if councils did not resist the "disfiguring eczema" of modernist design.Sydney Morning Herald View full entry
Super detailed and up-to-date interactive map of Downtown LA from Cartifact View full entry
A sound portrait of living history: Four small towns in central Massachusetts that were evacuated, flattened and then flooded to create the biggest drinking water reservoir of its day. Though the evacuation began seventy years ago, the people who lived in the towns have clear, sometimes bitter... View full entry
After a trip to Asia, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa asks LA area architects to help transform the region. The Planning Report View full entry
What is it about the rich and their attempts to keep infrastructure out of their back yards? Are they better then us? The celebs who populate the malibu gulag have protested the construction of a $1.3b LGN terminal a few miles off-shore. LAtimes View full entry
Not since the days of Ebbets Field have Brooklynites been so united against big corporate power that again threatens to change the very fabric of the borough-- nine local perspectives on Atlantic Yards in the NYT View full entry
mayor blumburg quashes upscale waterfront development along the LIC queens waterfront. At least 5000 members of the middle-class hoi-poloi can enjoy million dollar views too.NYtimes View full entry
It comes down to this; "It's a historic day for Escondido. We are very proud to be leading our city and our country in defending the nation". la times. View full entry
Glamour cities are centers of international business (New York), political power (Washington, D.C.), and the New Economy (Boston). They usually have a 19th-century infrastructure of museums, concert halls...and they are where the wealthy, the well-educated, and the ambitious want to live. San... View full entry
The Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul, was once a concrete sewer, but has been rehabilitated into a verdant stream to a tune of $360m. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigos visited the river durring his trip to Korea and saw the potential future of the Los Angeles River . LAtimes View full entry
