Yup, can you believe it, more on Alsop in the Guardian . View full entry

In Mumbai, according to the Slum Rehabilitation Development (SRD) scheme, a builder willing to build under this program, provides free housing to slum dwellers and uses the extra FSI to build and sell in the open market. But critics are pointing out how this model is a miserable failure. View full entry

Perspectives on urban planning via silver bullet projects and/or neighborhood building. The view from Sacramento News&Review, Sacramento Bee and San Deigo. View full entry

CSMonitor : Throughout Germany, churches are renting their facades for commercial messages. Supporters hail the development as an ingenious fundraising tactic. (not satire) View full entry

Last week, an evaluation committee designated a patch of land 60 miles to the south of Seoul as the likely future capital of South Korea. link View full entry

Church officials scoff at the suggestion that they have a formal plan to dominate Clearwater. The St. Petersburg Times reports on the Church of Scientology's massive private-sector investments in Clearwater, FL. View full entry

Architectural and cultural heritage experts are pleading with Putin as hundreds of buildings from czarist period are being demolished. (via globeandmail.com) View full entry

A brief round-up of today's reportage on the opening of Chicago's Millennium Park: The Chicago Tribune's Blair Kamin weighs in with his critique. Beth Botts, also of the Tribune, reports on Dutch landscape architect Piet Oudolf's contribution to the design for the three-acre Lurie Garden. The... View full entry

Debate over the efficacy of a 930-foot-long causeway, designed by architecture students at Puno's University of the Altiplano and built to enclose 50 acres of Puno Bay in an attempt to solve a pollution problem plaguing Peru's main port on Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake. (from... View full entry

to follow up on Ludwig's post, here is a doozey of a gallery from Daily Dose covering the opening of the Millennium Park...and a reprise of John Jourden's Imagexplosion. View full entry

Mayor's impressive new monument is also a symbol of the inefficiency and excess of his officeThe Guardian View full entry

The expansion of ASU to a brand new campus in downtown Phoenix has the potential to revitalize the city's moribund downtown. (via) View full entry

Fresh from their presentation at the Center for Architecture, Joshua David and Robert Hammond, co-founders of Friends of the High Line, and Amanda Burden, Chair of the NYC City Planning Commission, discuss plans for the redevelopment of the High Line on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show. View full entry

One of the two development teams vying for the Grand Ave job unveils their design to Slatin Report. Still to be seen is the David Childs / Morphosis / Doug Suisman proposal. View full entry

To entice some Armenians back, manicured lawns and immaculate California-style suburban houses are taking shape on the outskirts of Yerevan in what is billed as the first American-inspired gated community in the South Caucasus. "Come home to Armenia," reads the sign outside the guardhouse at the... View full entry