Embattled president Robert Mugabe denied the avoidability of famine in Zimbabwe, and defended his controversial slum clearance policy in front of the UN general assembly. BBC View full entry

Brooklyn park delineates class lines, as beautiful views will be draped with "chicago-effect" high rise buildings which pay for the parks creation. NYT View full entry

Through dense urban poverty, the Tysonization of poultry farms, and the dithering of government, he argues, we have created this monster. Confused? The influenza strain H5N1. AKA Avian Bird Flu. VV View full entry

At the recent kick-off party for Civilising Spaces, hosted by New London Architecture, Lord-Architect Richard Rogers declared support for the old, yet impressively persistent, plans of Ken Livingstone, London's mayor, to build more public green spaces throughout greater London (PDF). An added... View full entry

Richard Rogers and Norman Foster might get all the plaudits, but it is architects Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones who have been quietly reshaping the capital's cultural landscape. The Times of London View full entry

Researchers at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory have developed the Mobile Landscape project, which creates electronic maps of cellphone use in the metropolitan area of Graz, Austria. "The researchers used three types of data -- density of cellphone calls, origins and destinations of the calls, and... View full entry

An urbane triumph. Few flaws found on test drive of city's newest entry route - John King, Chronicle Urban Design Writer. SFGate View full entry

Online registration has begun for 2005 symposium "Sustainable Waterfronts, Learning from the Dutch Experience" which will begin September 29 & 30, 2005, at the Illinois Institute of Technology. This might be of interest to those who'd like to compare and contrast the New Orleans to the Dutch... View full entry

Toru Watanabe has gotten busy in order to offer an unrequested alternative plan from the Shibuya council's transit development proposal & promote discussion over approaches to urban regeneration. PingMag talked with Mr Watanabe about "Shibuya Common", a website where people can get... View full entry

The city of Seattle is talking trash. Via View full entry

Continuing the thread of news on China and massive new infrastructure developments there (see here and here), here is one on a railway in the clouds to Lhasa. | nytimes View full entry

Government officals in Bulgaria call for Sofia's future mayor to be an architect, urbanist and a liberal...SNA View full entry

Here is another set of stories footnoting coverage of ad-hoc / military / fortress / squatter / carceral urbanism. We've got human canonballs soaring across the US/Mex border, myopic insight into the politics of walls, a peak at the terrain of an omniscient satellite industry, complexions of a... View full entry

Shelterforce Magazine argues against three recent studies implying that gentrification does not cause displacement. via Planetizen View full entry

Cities have been battling nature for centuries. Remember Ubar, Alexandria, Troy, the Pueblo, Pompei, Nan Madol, and Atlantis? Let's rehash. View full entry