At this month's post-Katrina "Mississippi Renewal Forum," architects, planners, and locals all discussed "various design concepts - including rezoning hard-hit areas to encourage pedestrian-friendly communities, building a trolley system between Biloxi and Gulfport and relocating a freight... View full entry
The colorful New Urbanist enclave of Prospect, CO, gets a write-up in the Denver Post: "Welcome to a little experiment in living, where houses are painted like carousel horses, the park provides biodegradable dog-poop pickup bags, and streets bear curious names... Quaint and quirky Prospect is... View full entry
Dubai via Archinect, Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker: or, Post-Oil Middle-East, Part III: Pruned View full entry
Since it has been so smooth with the first one... NY1 View full entry
The NYTimes covers today gold and computers, from birth to death, and what that implies for poor places. After a month-long investigation, "much of the gold left to be mined is microscopic and is being wrung from the earth at enormous environmental cost." Behind Gold's Glitter. Similarly, a new... View full entry
A look at the logic behind the Commissioner's Plan of 1811 for the NYC street grid. nytimes View full entry
Blatantly obvious, yes. But apparently the US Census Bureau on Thursday released its first-ever estimates on daytime population changes. Lake Buena Vista, FL, is an amazing case in point. It is a strictly daytime city. From 16 residents, it grows to 30,768 during the day from workers commuting to... View full entry
"The Wal-Mart shopper can go into Wal-Mart and shop, and when they are ready for their appointment, the beeper goes off and tells them that they can come back and their office visit is ready," boxtank | wesh View full entry
In this article on the history of "urban mapping" and the production of the 'image of the city,' Peter Whitfield traces the artistic depictions which strived to capture the city in its entirety, before political and military powers evolved and found greater needs for images that functioned with... View full entry
La Vanguardia reported that a 2001 commission for the plaza de las Glòries by Zaha Hadid is not getting funding. The project included movie theatres and ceremony halls, besides the outdoor areas. The article mentions that Hadid may get building commission at the Forum of Cultures as... View full entry
As Geoff reported in August (read that article reprinted here), today we see a new revisitation of Hoffman's policy revision on the National Parks System. Hoffmn's original reason for revising the 2001 management policy was because he thought current law facilitated "anti-enjoyment." This new... View full entry
Geoff Manaugh ...to the Archinect team (or as he likes to call it, the Brady Bunch page...Will one day have animated faces where we all look and smile at each other). Manaugh gets dosed up on 'roids and writes those amazing cabinets of landscape curiosities on BLDG|BLOG. He drives one of these. View full entry
As Microsoft signs-on to become the first "seven-figure-sum" sponsor of London's new Wembley, housing goes spectatorial inside an Osaka baseball stadium in the photos of Naoya Hatakeyama. But then there's DC, and Vancouver, and New Orleans, and Brooklyn, and... stadiums, stadiums everywhere, and... View full entry
The Chinese building boom: is it a housing bubble? Well... What's a bubble? "China's real estate market is so hot that miniature cities are being created with artificial lakes, and the country's nouveau riche suddenly seem eager to put down as much as $5.3 million for a luxury apartment in... View full entry
"We need to push for the equitable distribution of resources. You cannot have homes that lack the most basic things" BBC View full entry