The Dutch city's eco-friendly infrastructure has new power hookups for electric cars, solar panels, and household wind turbines. The Dutch city's eco-friendly infrastructure has new power hookups for electric cars, solar panels, and household wind turbines. On the streets of Amsterdam last week... View full entry

Vice explores the actions of the Movimento dos Sem Teto, who occupy São Paulo’s abandoned Skyscrapers. Vice explores the actions of the Downtown Roofless Movement, who occupy São Paulo’s abandoned Skyscrapers. Vice Magazinehttp://www.mtst.info/ View full entry

A high-rise tower for animals in the industrial heartland of Leeds is offering a unique solution to the decline of urban wildlife. Can it work? A high-rise tower for animals in the industrial heartland of Leeds is offering a unique solution to the decline of urban wildlife. Can it work? BBC News View full entry

What happened to the Office of Urban Policy? After 100 days, Obama’s shiny-new dream for our cities is looking more like a bureaucratic nightmare. What happened to the Office of Urban Policy? After 100 days, Obama’s shiny-new dream for our cities is looking more like a bureaucratic... View full entry

KCET teamed up with Friends of the LA River and the Los Angeles Leadership Academy, to produce Departures L.A. River. Journey with them down the 52-mile stretch of the L.A. River KCET teamed up with Friends of the LA River and the Los Angeles Leadership Academy, to produce Departures L.A. River... View full entry

In 4–6 November, 2009, the Urban Age focuses on Istanbul and extends its investigations into the links between the social characteristics and the physical form of global cities. Istanbul's strategic location makes it a vital reference for understanding urban trends in South East Europe, the... View full entry

Another step in New York’s transformation from the world’s greatest metropolis to a generic tourist trap? N. O. reviews via NYT View full entry

Janette Sadik-Khan, the city’s Transportation commissioner, manages to be equal parts Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses. As she prepares to close swaths of Broadway to cars next week, she is igniting a peculiar new culture war—over the role of the automobile in New York. NY Magazine View full entry

Using the 2014 Commonwealth Games as a launch pad for further analysis, Neil Gray unmasks the dehumanising and exploitative realities behind the logic of urban regeneration strategies in Glasgow. Mute Magazine View full entry

Trash lies everywhere in the fields, lots and buildings where children play in Guédiawaye, Senegal. Residents of this neighborhood buy refuse to build up low-lying areas that are prone to flooding in rainy season. NYT View full entry

The government of Cairo has tried hard to encourage private investment in the refuse sector, but some estimate 4,000 tonnes of waste are left behind every day, festering in the heat as it waits for someone to clear it up. In Shubra, the residents recently took to the streets armed with dustpans... View full entry

Meet Bob Greenstreet, architecture dean at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is the longest-serving dean of any architecture school in the country, starting in 1990, and, since 2004, he has also been the leading urban planner for the city. Chronicle of Higher Education View full entry

A former coal mining facility owned by Mitsubishi Motors, it was once the most densely populated place on earth, packing over 13,000 people into each square kilometer of its residential high-rises. It operated from 1887 until 1974, after which the coal industry fell into decline and the mines... View full entry

So now the options on how to save a city is either by farming or demolishing... When is a city not a city? NYT View full entry

With 14,100 vacant lots, another possible model for revitalization for Buffalo-- except for a pesky long-term planning effort to create housing in a city that has steadily lost population. via The Buffalo News View full entry