A new park at the foot of LA City Hall or a replacement to LAPD's Parker Center headquarters? www.lacivicpark.org View full entry

The first full-scale test of the facility, is timed to mark the tenth anniversary of the Kobe earthquake on January 17 next year. One month ago we read about the 4-metre-wide square platform used to simulate earthquakes in a giant lab in Mexico. The Japanese table can hold a seven-storey... View full entry

Big developments on Barcelona's waterfront: A city famous for daring design is reinventing itself with multibillion-dollar projects. The article surveys a series of new development projects from the Besòs district to Plaza de las Glories and a Gehry in between. (link) View full entry

Israel Plans to (Re)zone Settlements to Build 533 New Units thus expanding a wealthy suburb of Jerusalem further into the West Bank. (NYT) View full entry

the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge | from Wired: part 1 | part 2 View full entry

A group of 8 professors at the University of Jerusalem have mounted a cogent criticism of Moshe Safdie's plan for Jerusalem, claiming, while it is architectural and physical in nature, it has no overall vision of Jerusalem's future. The plan does not address the main fundamental problems, will... View full entry

This essay, by Chris Spannos describes a broad vision of how cities, architecture, spatial design and our built environment evolve within a participatory economy; an alternative to cities dominated by private property, capital, and markets or cities based on command economies with central... View full entry

The South Korean government has a moving date. On August 11th, President Roh Moo-hyun announced a plan to build a new capital city from scratch on a 7,100-hectare greenfield site in the middle of the country. A competition will be held for the design of the still to be named capital. Construction... View full entry

Grants for destruction: where do I apply? (iht) View full entry

As part of the Mayor of London 100 Public Spaces programme, Lambeth will get a new town square. View full entry

Mall of America celebrates 12 years and threatens to go bigger - uh, make that 9,000,000 sf. | guardian | triple5 | *gulp* | View full entry

Want to meet and communicate with your neighbors? Forget that age-old tactic of knocking on their door to ask for a cup of sugar. Keith Hampton, professor of technology, urban and community sociology at MIT has developed i-neighbours, a website made to bring the people in your ”˜hood... View full entry

"This discussion intends to clarify the principal issues, separating the intentions and actualities of the plan from the popular sport of shadowboxing the developer who promoted it -- the Disney Corporation." from INTBAU View full entry

One of the largest efforts in years under way at Princeton University. Says the article: "Work will begin this fall on the futuristic science library (...) designed by Frank Gehry (scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2006)." Who knows what they mean by "futuristic"...what goes on inside or... View full entry

Christine Lane gives a technical and geographical piece-by-piece analysis of the Israeli Wall's impacts on the Palestinian people. View full entry