"Cities are predictors of the future", OMA-partner Reinier de Graaf told ErasmusPC in an interview about the city. Although cities are the locus of the poor, the heartbeat of the city comes before the rest. ErasmusPC View full entry
Reg from WMMNA visited Oslo and the School of Architecture, and reports on mobility, urban indicators and participatory urbanism. Take a look View full entry
UC Berkeley landscape architects and urban designers beat out Harvard and UI for the Hines Prize organized by the Urban Land Institute. The site given was East 1st Street between Alameda and Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. ULI site has PDF downloads and lots of info | Curbed LA |... View full entry
Tokyo's nighttime entertainment district of Roppongi is swapping strip bars for Shogun relics and dancers for designers as a 370 billion yen ($3 billion) project brings in luxury shops, a new museum and a design center. Bloomberg View full entry
Uptown built as if it were going to conquer Chicago, but spent most of the following century battling a hangover. Today, it remains the place where florid ambition and cold reality collide. Read all about it, and see the pictures here:REPEAT View full entry
Irony of ironies...George Orwell, the prolific English writer and anti-authoritarian, well..."within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move." Read | via View full entry
Seeking new solutions to New York’s vexingly high poverty rates, the city is moving ahead with a bold antipoverty experiment that will pay poor families up to $5,000 a year to meet targets like exemplary school attendance, going for medical checkups or holding down a full-time job. NYT View full entry
Residents of a Gaza community flooded by deadly untreaded sewage due to grossly overloded infrastructure failure that was long coming. Some blame sanctions on Hamas/Palestinian people. bbc, nyt and haaretz with public comments. View full entry
An entire new capital city has been "unveiled" in Burma. It is "being built on a vast and extravagant scale in hundreds of square kilometres of tropical scrubland." It's also fascist. BBC. View full entry
An international blog by Artiom about the recent proposal + building frenzy in Almaty. Almaty Development Blog..via View full entry
The year 2007 marks a shift to an urban era, an era in which more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This fact is making many headlines. But what are its implications? How will this impact the Futures of Cities? Over a century ago, the Danish journalist and photographer... View full entry
Coherence, not competition, is the key. TimesOnline View full entry
Here's a short film promoting "The World's Most Exclusive Waterside Address" designed by Foster and Partners. View full entry
The UNEP has put together an Atlas of Our Changing Environment. Witness dramatic change / destruction in a short 25 years. View full entry
With a quietly approved plan by the City Council last week, Los Angeles decided to sell the air above the Downtown Convention Center for 20$ per sq. ft., so developers can build higher and denser towers elsewhere in the area. Some say projected 200MIL income is peanuts. latimes View full entry