Singapore "wants to stimulate tourism and other service industries by molding a more tolerant, fun-loving" version of itself. This will include huge, Las Vegas-style casinos. View full entry
Seattle debates its desire to tear down the Alaskan Way Viaduct citing examples from San Francisco to Milwaukee. | seattlepi. (via) View full entry
New concept in Las Vegas. There will be Jerusalem limestone, Dolomite and Alicante marble from Spain as well as pilasters, domes, cobblestones and statues and restaurants (read 'pizza pizza'). The development will feel like an aging complex that has evolved organically over several hundred... View full entry
"For the first time", writes Tom Robbins, "non-union immigrants are building Manhattan's high-rise towers." Village Voice View full entry
Michael Schwartz writes a great piece for Mother Jones about the perpetual failure of Iraq's rebuilding under American contracts, and how the occupation is more a force of destruciton than anything else. View full entry
Expanding on the City Green series in NYT. Zoka Zola sends us word of her new research on rationalizing and recalibrating the urban fabric of Chicago into a more sustainable system. View full entry
The New York Times Business section has a series of articles on green urbanism, including one that focuses on Chicago and one that reviews "green architecture" in NYC: NYT. View full entry
Pundits may not be facing up to the ultimate answer to rising energy costs -- our physical environment -- but the American consumer is already deep into the calculus, says Anthony Flint, author of This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America. read more @ Planetizen View full entry
According to Larry Davis, who has sold real estate in the Florida Panhandle for 15 years, "nothing can compete with Seaside," the original New Urbanist community where pastel-colored houses carry million-dollar price tags. But his new development, Owl's Head, near Freeport, Florida, has something... View full entry
Sometimes all you have to do is look at the rendering. Words can obfuscate, but the picture is often remarkably clear. That's certainly the case with Ave Maria, the Catholic university and adjoining town funded to the tune of $250 million by Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, currently under... View full entry
London neighborhood beams itself into neighbor homes. View full entry
Exhibit at WDCH | reviewed by LATimes View full entry
Apparently, the quest to map Mapquest involves driving around in a car with a map, and bickering over whether or not to ask for help when lost. spiegel | thanks kanarinka | previously View full entry
"Progress is being made on nearly every facet of light rail construction throughout the Phoenix area as crews from multiple contractors descend on some of the Valley's most-used arterials. The 20-mile initial route will connect central Phoenix with the East Valley, with a planned completion in... View full entry
When people wander around the MIT campus with a Wi-Fi-enabled cell phone or laptop, they're also participating in a real-time mapping project. Carlo Ratti, a practicing architect with a firm in Torino, Italy, runs the SENSEable City Laboratory in the university's department of urban studies and... View full entry