HUD and DOT announce interagency partnership to promote sustainable communities.HUD News Release View full entry
Today ten proposals were submitted to French president Nicolas Sarkozy, to redesign Paris. Some of the architects invited to submit proposals include Richard Rogers, Christian de Portzamparc, Jean Nouvel, and MVRDV. To read more, and see all the proposals visit Bustler On a related note, we've... View full entry
The proposed L.A. park also would physically reunite the Civic Center with Bunker Hill, 50 years after a huge redevelopment project leveled the old neighborhood and replaced it with skyscrapers. L.A. Times View full entry
The most recent issue of Vague Terrain is a survey of strategies for representing urban space. Work includes visualization, subjective cartographies, software-powered video and media architecture monuments. Vague Terrain 13: citySCENE> View full entry
State legislators are pushing to dismantle the agency in charge of managing growth, arguing that it's standing in the way of reviving Florida's economy... A proposal unveiled Monday for consideration by a House committee on Wednesday calls for taking the Department of Community Affairs apart... View full entry
MONU Magazine on Urbanism is now soliciting submissions for issue #11 "Clean Urbanism". Bustler View full entry
"If developers could envisage a dream city it would be Dubai (native population 1.5 million), the second largest construction site in the world after Shanghai (pop. 15 million). When developers turn into planners, the market (whether existing or envisaged) determines the scale of operations and... View full entry
Meeting in Egypt, more than 70 nations pledge billions to rebuild Gaza and Palestinian infrastructure ruined after recent bombing. The US pledges 900 millions. Jazeera View full entry
Daniel Burnham’s great Chicago Plan turns one hundred. Paul Goldberger for The New Yorker View full entry
The world's slums are overcrowded, unhealthy - and increasingly seen as resourceful communities that can offer lessons to modern cities. Boston Globe View full entry
People that live in suburbs are the most satisfied with the place they live of all Americans. Out of all Americans, most rank small towns over suburbs as ideal places to live, and yet folks actually in small towns report disillusionment. The Pew Research Center View full entry
The city plans to close several blocks of Broadway to vehicle traffic through Times Square and Herald Square, an experiment that would turn swaths of the Great White Way into pedestrian malls and continue Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s effort to reduce traffic congestion in Midtown. Broadway... View full entry
Charlie Rose interviews Sergio Fajardo, former mayor of Medellín. They discuss how the former mayor was able to reduce social inequality and violence through the use of social interventions. These programs were concerned with "changing the skin of the city" with a focus on urban, civic... View full entry
Urban Omnibus posts Ulrich Franzen's 1969 short film Street, a bold vision to reclaim Manhattan's congested streets as open space free from cars and trucks. View full entry
Today, President Barack Obama announced the following White House posts; Adolfo Carrion, White House Director of Urban Affairs and Derek Douglas, Special Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs. Just to summarize we now have an urban planner and an economist respectively, directing the... View full entry
