Down on the beach next to the Dubai Offshore Sailing Club and the fishing harbour there's a stink: raw sewage is flowing into the sea close to prime tourist beaches. The putrid problem is caused by the illegal dumping of untreated sewage in Dubai's inland storm drain network, as the city's rapid... View full entry
In a move sure to speed up the country's urbanisation, China approves a land reform, that would allow farmers to trade and mortgage their land rights to large farming companies. aljazeera View full entry
The Pritzker Prize winner has predicted that Dubai will become an “ecological disaster” if development there continues in its current direction. BD View full entry
the LA chapter of the AIA has jumped in the fray over electronic billboards in the city of angles. this was precipitated when a new clearchannel jumbotron was installed near the architectural motherloade of silverlake. spotted on curbed View full entry
The DAC Danish Architecture Center has launched a fantastic website at the recent Architecture Biennale in Venice: "Sustainable Cities™ is a new global database containing knowledge on the sustainable planning of cities and best practise cases from cities all over the world." View full entry
Mumbai, India's Dharavi is one of the world's biggest slums -- and its most notorious. Look beyond the stereotype, however, and you'll find a successful settlement with a vibrant community and economy. But developers want to raze it all and start again. Urban development consultant Prakash M... View full entry
On the history and future of the suburb.Weekend America | Dolores Hayden View full entry
Freeways without Futures - CNU.org | Broadway broadens pedestrian access - USA Today | Cities rethink wisdom of 50s-era parking standards - NPR View full entry
Tom Vanderbilt profiles Mitchell Joachim as one of the 15 big thinkers who should advise the next president.Wired View full entry
Here's the first look at designs for a spectacular new boulevard and park planned for Manhattan's far West Side, where Mayor Bloomberg wants to build a new business district more than twice the size of the World Trade Center complex. NYPost | images @ Curbed | prev. View full entry
After a record setting 14 months of design-build, the new Mississippi river bridge on I-35W was opened yesterday. I had the pleasure of driving the new span a few minutes before 9am yesterday.The good: The open guard rails are brilliant as they allow for unfettered views of the river up and down... View full entry
"When Mohammed Atta flew a Boeing 767 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center he knew, perhaps more clearly than most of Manhattan’s inhabitants, the power of architecture to define a city. A student of town planning at Hamburg, Atta also had a degree in architecture from Cairo... View full entry
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg writes and Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal that calls for Gov. Paterson to "dismantle the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and hand over its development responsibilities to the city." WSJ | via Curbed | related? View full entry
Don't forget to feed the meter.. More after the jump. hello, I am writing to you as a volunteer helping to plan PARK[ing] Day LA 2008, which is citywide initiative happening on Friday, September 19th. If you haven't yet, I hope you will consider participating in Park[ing] Day LA, either by... View full entry
A vast region of the Amazon forest in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived. The settlements, consisting of networks of walled towns and smaller villages organised around a central plaza, are now almost entirely overgrown by the forest. The findings were... View full entry
