A new post from the folks at Airoots explores the importance of preserving street layout in any plan for "slum redevelopment". Incremental development as opposed to "slum redevelopment" which takes such an approach they argue is important because this organic street layout of slums is a physical... View full entry
"Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm confirmed Monday that the younger Bush is seeking to have a gate placed somewhere along the entrance to streets leading to his future Preston Hollow address." thinkprog View full entry
Recent trips to Dubai, Shanghai and Hong Kong leave Karrie Jacobs pondering the upsides of the West's approach to urban planning and development. Boomtown Blues View full entry
Many New Yorkers are wondering how the Related Companies will muster the wherewithal for its multi-billion Hudson Yards development, but plans are moving ahead for Hudson Park and Boulevard, the newly mapped thoroughfare angling north from the West Side railyards to 42nd Street. — AN
Bringing this linear swath of neighborhood one step closer to reality, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates has been selected as lead designer for the project, which will run west of 10th Avenue and include a 4-acre system of parks linking to the core of Hudson Yards. previously View full entry
Plectic Architecture -Towards a Theory of the Post-Digital in Architecture. Professor Neil Spiller-Director-AVATAR Bartlett School of Architecture, via Beyond the Beyond Post-Digital design...must attempt to be immune to sophist arguments of style and good taste. It should rejoice in the... View full entry
Barack Obama has promised massive public spending and millions of new jobs on projects building and rebuilding roads and bridges, transit and energy systems — the world that undergirds our economy and daily lives. But exactly what kind of infrastructure? Patching up the old 20th-century? Or... View full entry
London Metropolitan University’s Architecture Research Unit has proposed one of three schemes chosen for the next stage in the development of South Korea’s enormous new reclaimed city of Saemangeum. Images, Video and Story @ BD View full entry
Local and federal officials on Tuesday announced plans for a 70-acre medical campus in the heart of New Orleans to replace two hospitals damaged during Hurricane Katrina, a $2 billion investment that supporters say will create thousands of jobs and begin to rebuild the city’s shattered... View full entry
The key to securing global prosperity in our increasingly interconnected global marketplace is addressing the housing crisis that no one talks about. While experts debate how best to solve the international financial crisis, providing the world’s poor with secure tenure to their home or... View full entry
The Government Accountability Office has made "Surface Transportation" one of its 13 urgent issues for President-Elect Obama to address. Others include the financial crisis, the wars in the middle east, the digital TV transition, and the retirement of the Space Shuttle. GAO: "The nation's surface... View full entry
Irena Bauman is on a mission to make cities more loveable. Martin Wainwright hears why she is challenging the profession to stop, look around and stand up to developers.Read and Watch video View full entry
The Economist examines new research published by the World Bank in its annual flagship World Development Report. The research the Economist suggests, proves that pessimism over the future of huge cities is wildly overdone. Read and the full report here View full entry
Apparently Barack Obama is soliciting ideas from the public as he forms the first Office of Urban Policy. This sounds excellent... but I'm not totally sure if this website is legit or if was started by a sneaky company to collect email addresses from proactive citizens. Can anyone confirm?... View full entry
The washington post reports that there will be jobs for architects and planners in the Obama White House. Sign up here. from the plan (pdf)Create a White House Office on Urban Policy: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will take the federal government’s role in supporting urban America seriously... View full entry
New York’s quixotic quest to turn traffic-choked streets into pedestrian paradise took another step forward today, when Transportation Alternatives released the winning entries in its Designing the 21st Century Street competition. Images and Story @ AN View full entry