"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

The New York Daily news looks at five blunders ( courtesy of Gov. Pataki) that left the plans for the "9/11 memorial" in a bureaucratic mire. View full entry

All over the world, high-end planned communities are springing up, driven by demand from wealthy customers who want to live not only in luxurious homes but in luxurious environments, among their own. From Florida to Mumbai, Istanbul to Dubai, developers are creating small utopias where the... View full entry

GREEN campaigners in South Yorkshire have hit out at plans for a £300m development to breathe new life into Rotherham, saying it is "outrageously inappropriate".Yorkshire Post View full entry