All New York Architects are late to work. Blame it on the rain. Many walk Williamsburg bridge for the first time, totally negating effect of morning shower. Subway trains still aren't running normally and those surfing MTA website for service updates are unable to access the page. Just great. NYT View full entry
Cities across America will gain temporary new downtown parks for a few hours on Friday, September 21, thanks to a public project sponsored by the Trust for Public Land. TPL | previously | PARK(ing) Day 2006 | first intervention, 2005 View full entry
Founded in 1963 and housed on their Clinton Hill campus, the Pratt Center for Community Development is billed as "the first university-based advocacy planning and design center" in the US. Today, the center is a nexus of public-interest problem solvers, and its interdisciplinary expertise is... View full entry
When the capital of the Middle Kingdom hosts the summer Olympics next year, nothing will be left to chance or spontaneity. Image-conscious and averse to PR gaffes, Chinese leaders are staging a grand rehearsal to fine-tune a coming out party into the world. IPS View full entry
The collapse of the eight-lane steel-deck truss bridge last week in Minneapolis focused attention on deficiencies in many older spans around the nation. Despite these troubles, engineers say, new ideas and technologies are making bridges safer — not to mention longer and more beautiful... View full entry
Brooklyn is exploding with great neighborhood blogs. WNYC talks with the editors of three of the most prolific. View full entry
James S. Russell, Bloomberg's U.S. architecture critic, on the plan:"Why would Columbia hire such a talented urbanist as Piano and then allow him to produce something so bland?" Bloomberg | The Piano/SOM Plan | Community Developed Rival 197-A Plan View full entry
The old and the new: Can a 400-year-old city change? Do its inhabitants want it to? How much can a tourist town that lives off its heritage welcome change? NYT View full entry
By luring Western institutions like the Louvre and Yale, Abu Dhabi aims to become a global arts center. Newsweeek | Q&A with the ADTA's Cultural Consigliere | previously 1 | 2 View full entry
Bryan Finoki takes on politics of shit in the Middle East, where safe water/sewage becomes a weapon exploited by all sides. Finoki concludes by advocating, "Using environmental justice as a launching pad for greater political change and conflict zone resolution." subtopia View full entry
“The towers are really just giant stacks of money mostly bridging an upper class exodus from Mexico City with the moneyed highways of commerce running in all directions throughout San Diego, pressurizing the nexus of one of the busiest and already most economically polarized borders in the... View full entry
"What they (city officials) want to see is a Dominick's and sushi joints and a Starbucks (gentrification)." yahoo View full entry
God's hometown, Ave Maria, Florida, a compact, walkable, self-sustaining new town centered around a massive oratory and a Catholic University is now open to public. It is built by Dominos pizza money and developer Barron Collier Cos. naplesnews + Birth of clean town View full entry
Close your eyes and imagine this dream of the future: a virtual place where you can stand in line to pay parking tickets, visit an auditorium where the mayor is giving a speech, or drop in on a meeting where planning officials are wrestling with development plans. Boston Globe View full entry
New York's Gov. Spitzer and legislative leaders yesterday reached an agreement to develop a plan to reduce congestion in the city - but not necessarily including Mayor Bloomberg's controversial fee proposal. NYPost | Definite Maybe | Deal or No Deal? | AP | previously View full entry
