Detroit's efforts to rid itself of dilapidated homes and buildings have drawn both supporters and critics. l NPR l Previous l View full entry
Wauwatosa, WI has proposed legislation intended to tighten restrictions on big-box store development, partially through the requirement that developers provide for the buildings' demolition should they ever be abandoned. Journal Sentinel Online | Via View full entry
The LATimes writeup points out that very few Texans (including myself) even knew this proposal existed in the first place, much less that it was on its way to being approved/enacted. Quarter mile-wide transportation corrider stretching from Mexico to Oklahoma. NYTimes|LATimes|Official Site View full entry
Atlantic City has finally found something about Las Vegas that it doesn't want to copy: the way it looks. NY Times View full entry
J Gardner, NYSun, dissects the architect's impulse of personality (@WTC) by contrasting Nobel's Sixteen Acres with Goldberger's Up from Zero. | nysun | article The Power of Personality BY JAMES GARDNER January 3, 2005 Several years ago, if memory serves, three films devoted to the Joey Buttafuoco... View full entry
To ask people to nominate one era of New York's history as its golden age is to ask for trouble. Nevertheless, 14 prominent New Yorkers with a keen sense of the city's past and present, from novelists like Cynthia Ozick to architects like Robert A. M. Stern to public figures like Vartan... View full entry
MGM Mirage, the $4 billion hotel and gambling behemoth, is spending some $3 billion of the house's money on a major real estate play to transform 66 acres on the Las Vegas Strip into a mini-Manhattan. Think condominiums, boutiques, restaurants and movie theaters, all within walking distance. | NYT View full entry
The United Nations has asked to use the land in a small city park for the construction of a new office tower. But some City Council members want to nix the plan because they believe the UN is anti-Israel. WNYC View full entry
Detroit gets new weapon against urban blight. To make the area more conducive to yuppie habitation. Free Press View full entry
Is your Local Mall a thing of the past? Maybe if you had contacted these guys, they could have helped save it... View full entry
Steve Lopez, LA Times gadfly lunches with mall developer Rick Caruso at The Grove and comes away feeling that his latest Lifestyle-Style malls turn somewhere into nowhere. View full entry
Housing Crisis Causes Alarming Increase In U.S. Homelessness - New Standard | from Planetizen | prev View full entry
Places such as Lakewood define a large part of the Los Angeles experience — the "not quite middle class" blend of comfort and anxiety that comes with precarious ownership of a small house on a small lot on a street of nearly identical houses that still... View full entry
Unesco appeals for help as Dam threatens Iran's heritage sites. The flooding of the eight-mile Tang-e-Bolaghi gorge because of the construction of a dam will destroy ancient Persia's imperial road which ran from Persepolis to Pasargadae.(the Guardian) View full entry
Great site that documents the disused and ghost stations of the London Underground. Snoop around. | underground View full entry