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

For a redesign of Coney Island—if not the world’s most famous amusement park, certainly its most iconoclastic—who would be the ideal architect? How about Frank Gehry? Too mainstream. Asymptote? Too polished. Lebbeus Woods? Too theoretical. Well what about Will Alsop? Now there is a carnival... View full entry

Yesterday, President Bush signed into law the first Amtrak five-year reauthorization bill since 2002. In addition to providing $12 billion for the beleaguered railway, it also created two $1.5 billion grants to promote high-speed and inter-city rail programs. But the most significant part of the... View full entry

Baghdad was once the scene of an ambitious modernist plan with Le Corbusier’s unbuilt sports complex at its heart. At last its details can be savoured. BD View full entry

So far, unfortunately, neither John McCain nor Barack Obama has recognized the need for a new way of thinking about and improving our cities and suburbs. NYT View full entry