John Zarocostas in Geneva last week interviewed Miloon Kothari (World Chronicle Programme interview), an architect and independent consultant on adequate housing with the UN Commission on Human Rights, about the growing worldwide problem of homelessness(John Zarocostas interview). Staggering. View full entry
Communities say more federal money is needed to rehab the ex-military spaces they've inherited, which are often polluted and impractical to use. LATimes | Previously: "All Your Base Are Befouled By Us" View full entry
Bush's new pact with Mexico & Canada draws fire | New passport chips | Patrols & crossers thrash the dessert | Immigrant Hunting | San Ysidro border plaza gets beautified | Dangerously restoring a Canadian memorial | Security measures alter tourists' view of the Capital | Inside Islam's... View full entry
Unchecked growth threatens Beijing's historic architecture. Who saw that one coming? From the China View View full entry
Virtual Urban planning with ARTHUR - Augmented Round Table for Architecture and Urban Planning. View full entry
Michael Arad, Peter Walker and... Max Bond?? Yes, as in Davis, Brody, Bond. Curbed takes a look. View full entry
15 story ad on Flatiron Building, Manhattan landmark, not legal, city says. NYTimes | previously: 1, 2 | Curbed View full entry
Leonard Lopate discusses with Joel Kotkin his new book on cities and their global relationships in the past, present, and future. View full entry
Nakai plateau: Dammed to Oblivion A verdant plateau in Laos is home to some of the world's rarest animal species. Now, thanks to World Bank backing, it will disappear as part of a huge scheme to export hydroelectricity. (Paul Wolfowitz now runs the World Bank). Jan McGirk and Andrew Buncombe... View full entry
Here are two good reads on what is produced and left behind for communities by military bases both during operation and after they close. Grist Magazine's Justin Scheck wrote: There's No Base Like Home, and Scripps Howard News Service writer Joan Lowy: Closed military bases can leave behind... View full entry
Down to a final 3 for 2012 Olympics? Read View full entry
Plans to turn a 14-mile stretch of Brooklyn waterfront into an urban utopia gained steam yesterday when Nydia Velazquez, a Sunset Park Congresswoman, earmarked $18.25 million in federal funds for the project. Stretching from Greenpoint to Bay Ridge, the "Brooklyn Greenway Initiative" will feature... View full entry
Fred A. Bernstein : 20-year, $8 billion plan to revitalize the Anacostia's banks. Kathryn Gustafson will contribute a park, Cesar Pelli and Michael Graves will do new buildings. View full entry
Apparently it takes a mapping project to figure out "the majority of the world's population will soon live in urban rather than rural areas." columbia Earth Institute News View full entry
Can we learn to love this landscape without killing it? One Arizona community found a way. Pima has developed a plan that permits growth while protecting the desert environment--a plan that has become a template for communities across the Southwest. From Time Magazine View full entry