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

And families using government buildings as impromptu accomodations protest evicitions. Reuters | via View full entry

Portugal has in the works a 600-unit housing project with contributions by 14 architects, including Siza and Souto de Moura. | timesonline View full entry

Sales of new U.S. homes soared 9.4 percent in February, the largest jump in more than four years and well above Wall Street forecasts... (Reuters) View full entry