Italy's newly re-elected PM Silvio Berlusconi said landfill sites will be classified as of strategic national interest, guarded by soldiers. bbc | torching trash in Naples | prev. View full entry

Clashes pitting the poorest of the poor against one another have killed 22 people in South Africa and underscored bitter frustration with the government's failure to deliver enough jobs, housing and schools. AP View full entry

Oklahoma has a radical solution for repairing the state's busiest highway. Tear it down. Build a park. More than a dozen cities have proposals to remove highways from downtowns. Cleveland wants to remove a freeway that blocks its waterfront. Syracuse, N.Y., wants to rid itself of an interstate... View full entry

It was recently announced that DC will begin rolling out a bike sharing program similar to the Paris Velib or Barcelona's Bicing. NYT articleSmartBikeDC View full entry

Steve Friess examines the plans for the creation of a "new downtown" near the Strip in Vegas. The new urban core will center around a new performing arts center whose designer's are referenced on the project's website as a "design team" and the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute for alzheimer research... View full entry

Katie Thomas explores how Oklahoma City rejuvenated the North Canadian River that runs through it and renamed it to the Oklahoma River. By creating new trails and wetlands the redevelopment also brought new life and international acclaim as a water sports mecca, to the city.NYT What happened?In... View full entry

America’s mayors are in a unique position to help rebuild our blighted federal government. Metropolis View full entry

For New York City, April is the cruelest month. Just one year ago it was poised to embark on $12 billion worth of eye-catching new development centered on mass transit hubs, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a 127-point plan to reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent while adding a million new... View full entry

A Japanese coal city that lost 90 per cent of its residents after its mines closed and the city councillors went on a disastrous spending spree. Watch the editorial reportage on Monocle Download higher quality version here View full entry

Street reformers — planners, architects and urban officials from around the globe — are questioning the conventional street-curb-sidewalk motif, challenging the dominance of cars, and devising ways to use street furniture, plants and even radical new vehicles to transform the... View full entry

As part of preparations for begining construction on the Olympic sites, some tidal creeks in east London are in the middle of changes that will see them become major freight and potential recreation route(s) once more. BBC News View full entry

In response to a tongue-in-cheek premise that sprawl improves public health, a new strategy for promoting urban living develops from an economic theory on diminishing returns. View full entry

The City Charter, the document that lays out the rules of city government, has traditionally been the domain of municipal lawyers and few others. Its pages are a tangle of esoteric language and run-on sentences... But in a decision born of desperation and perhaps a touch of naïveté, a... View full entry

New Yorkers would do well to pay attention a proposal to tear down several buildings in the Greenwich Village Historic District if they care about the city’s future. NYT View full entry

The capital hasn't seen this kind of an architectural makeover since the Mongols overtook the city, but a new Beijing may not be what's best for a modern China. CSM View full entry