With the number of potential building sites in New Jersey declining and the amount of undeveloped land being placed into various forms of conservation trust or easements growing, developers are taking a second look at the state's numerous “brownfields,”. Many efforts have been focused... View full entry

Guragon, a suburb of New Delhi, is the symbol of India's hot new economy and its voracious energy consumption expected to double by 2030. | nytimes View full entry

Bitter homes & gardens? Soon after taking the job of director of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning in 2006, Gail Goldberg made a declaration that let slip how City Hall is allowing developers to pursue a building frenzy straight out of the storied tale Chinatown. la weekly | related View full entry

Well that could only be one place: the Gulf States. KPF, SOM, OMA (& AMO), Hopkins, and Foster are all tinkering with the future of cities in Ras Al Khaimha, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai. | FT View full entry

Now that Boston's Big Dig is officially complete, will the promised changes in the quality of the urban fabric be delivered? Or will it only benefit the experience of those driving through? From the article; Jerold Kayden, a professor of urban planning and design at Harvard, said that the parks... View full entry

Can the derelict shantytowns of Tijuana be a template for redevelopment in the Hudson River Valley? NYT View full entry

The car-sharing darling makes its play for the mainstream by emphasizing economics and lifestyle over environmental impact. Fast Company View full entry

Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes opens today. "You can't afford to ignore it. It's just too big," says co-curator Andrew Blauvelt, design director at the Walker. website | book | mpr View full entry

Choose a name for your city and the country to which it belongs. That’s all you need to build your very own city on MyMiniCity. View full entry

If a camel is a horse built by a committee, then most cities are camels: ungainly creatures that have evolved over many centuries. But a precious few are thoroughbreds, having sprung, Athena-like, from the mind of one man. Christopher Hawthorne takes the measure of the metropolis built from... View full entry

Spared the fate of Moscow during the 1990's, Russia's Venice on the Baltic is now under siege to development and mega-projects. However, there is a home grown force for conservation/preservation. "In recent decades, several factors combined to save Petersburg from the fate suffered by other great... View full entry

The ex-Mayor of Curitaba spoke at the 2007 TED conference about his successful efforts to revolutionize bus transit, and awaken green consciousness in a populace accustomed to litter and blight. TED View full entry

Prince Charles on skyscrapers; "historic cities are at risk of being wrecked by a "rash" of "carbuncles" in the form of office and apartment towers." Also, in a speech backed by a slide show which highlighted Rogers's proposed 44-storey "cheese grater" tower next to Lord Foster's so-called... View full entry

Doug Murray is usually a "journo-for-hire" and throughout his journeys he has collected a vast array of border images and films... flickr View full entry

an opinion piece in today's l.a. times which is subtitled:"Will we allow the movie's nightmarish view of downtown to come true?"l.a. times View full entry