As the university looks to expand, a team of preservationists designs a guiding plan to manage existing buildings and landscapes. read View full entry

Fighting for the right to vote from prison and to pan handle on the street | read this hideous conversation about Zimbabwe 'cause it's only systematic. The Africa Union doesn't care about the Congo or the Niger Delta, and on and on. | makin' rules harder for Tent City 4 | Jamaica's version of... View full entry

John King, SFGate: The beach has existed longer than we know; Seacliff's landscaped poise dates back to the 1920s. But the pairing offers a model for San Francisco's future along the bay as a place where public worlds and the private realm are knit inextricably and treasured open water is... View full entry

...or how the city stumbled into a good stadium deal, by Ada Louise Huxtable. (previously). This arrives via the shameless Gutterland, but watch out opening the sniper's links; it is the only architecture-related website that may plant spyware. View full entry

Germany's faltering economy has plunged the country's building industry into crisis. Public authorities are part of the problem as they've been slow to live up to their financial obligations. Read in the Deutsche Welle View full entry

Indigenous in the borderzone | military base closures redevelopment boon or bust? | Jewsish settlers homes to get demo'd in GAZA | Jammu Line of Control hurts villagers | REAL ID Act moves into place | From Pickets to Stockades, analyzing fences | Burial Culture Design Concepts (pdf) | High Rise... View full entry

Ghana's new housing policy | Bidding farewell to Berlin's squatters | Zimbabwe's 'Cleanup' Takes a Vast Human Toll (NYT), (IWPR photos) | 90,000 homeless counted in LA | Indo Tsunami reconstruction, forever stalled... | the homeless: modern day slavery in FL. View full entry

"NEVER before have real house prices risen so fast, for so long, in so many countries. Property markets have been frothing from America, Britain and Australia to France, Spain and China. Rising property prices helped to prop up the world economy after the stockmarket bubble burst in 2000. What if... View full entry

When a road ends up on the Better Public Building shortlist two years in a row, it wont be long before better public is really all about better infrastructure. The A470 is just all that. | BBC | Tony's List View full entry

Major hurdle cleared with the federal Surface Transportation Board; NYTimes sums up the state of things. View full entry

Indian scientist wins world food prize for work in aquaculture | With a crumbling HQ the UN launches a video game about feeding the hungry | More here on the GSD students who won a design competition for housing tsunami victims. | the state of architecture in Zimbabwe | MUGABE evicts thousands of... View full entry

The Architectural League of New York's Worldview research visits Tijuana. Fourth in a series that includes Caracas, Dhaka, and Oslo. View full entry

Landscape values collide> A professor seeks to develop luxury homes on the road to the Mt. Whitney trailhead, stirs fears that the stunning vista will be marred...Readvia KV View full entry

New Urbanist John Norquist: Should the social virtues of urbanism and new investment in cities get washed out in the hue and cry over gentrification? Planetizen. | Prev View full entry

John King discusses the lessons to be learned from London's mayor Ken Livingston. SFG View full entry