Italy has chosen a winner for the 4.4bn euro ($5.3bn; £3bn) contract to build the world's longest suspension bridge that will link Sicily to the mainland. Big Berlu Biz or Big Berlu White Elephant? BBC | via View full entry

The Sky's No Limit from LATimes and Castles in the Sand abridged from this week's New Yorker View full entry

In order to track urban wind patterns - patterns that could disperse wind-borne germs or poisonous gases - scientists are relying on "micro-meteorology," or the study of complex inner-city wind dynamics. Those dynamics' very complexity may be "bad news for scientists trying to build a model, but... View full entry

While history has shown border fences to be largely ineffective at keeping out immigrants, Spain, apparently, now plans to join the ranks of Israel and the U.S. by upgrading it's massive border fence system around the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Intent on keeping African asylum-seekers out at... View full entry

A new list of $1.7 billion in overseas embassy contracts "is topped by a whopping $463.8-million award to First Kuwait Trading & Contracting Co. for construction of the unclassified portion of the new U.S. embassy complex in Baghdad, Iraq." (Rwanda is the third biggest). ENR View full entry

1 million-square-foot complex envisioned as heart of Valley: The Internet giant, which has been looking for expansion space during the company's extraordinary growth spurt, plans to build offices, housing for workers, roads and infrastructure on a vacant section of the sprawling NASA facility in... View full entry

Silvio Berlusconi has given the go ahead to controversial plans to build an underwater dam to protect Venice from flooding. BBC View full entry

"stop farming the crops and start manufacturing them" seems to be the mantra of Organitech, and once you do that, why not go vert? Wired View full entry

"Add to that (Ground Zero) a project in Brooklyn (Gehry) that seeks to create a superblock where there isn't one, and scattered calls to bring back Robert Moses, and this isn't looking like a great season for the legacy of Jane Jacobs." NYO View full entry

Remember this classic discussion? Well, they're back ... and this time the city will remain dim. | nytimes View full entry

The juxaposition of suburban and urban elements in american cities continues to make me laugh and worry simultaneously. l check it out l previous lPulled from a community bulletin (via email) of residents living near Cabrini-Green Video taping and documenting illegal activity and presenting a... View full entry

Years of talk and concern have still not managed to deliver the "28.5 hectares maze of towering blocks, low-rise flats and concrete walkways that became the Aylesbury estate " from inner city blight. Now the bulldozers have been called in to demolish 2,700 homes, and hundreds of families will be... View full entry

Where other mayors have faltered, Bloomie delivers. Deal Is Reached to Put Toilets on City Streets. Nicholas Grimshaw to design 'em. View full entry

In banishing the Marshall Fields name, Federated Department Stores is just doing to Chicago what it's done to cities across America, but the implications are anything but positive. Lynn Becker View full entry

"There were 5,000m-high mountains to climb, 12km-wide valleys to bridge, hundreds of kilometres of ice and slush that could never support tracks and trains. How could anyone tunnel through rock at -30C, or lay rails when the least exertion sends you reaching for the oxygen bottle? But that's the... View full entry