NYTimes opines: Hanging in the balance is the nation’s housing market, which has been a big driver of the economy. Fewer lenders means many potential homebuyers will find it more difficult to get credit, while hundreds of thousands of homes will go up for sale as borrowers default, further... View full entry
Unauthorized Charrette pitches grand visions and sustainable dreams to Mayor of St. Paul... An after-the-fact report and edit of the original posting:AIA Saint Paul - Unauthorized Design Charrette AIA Saint Paul hosted almost 50 architects, students and a stray scientist for an daylong anything... View full entry
Historian and filmmaker Suzanne Wasserman and Neil Smith, who’s been called the "father of gentrification theory," discuss whether suburbanization is edging out New York’s unique character. WNYC View full entry
A new film, Brooklyn Matters, uncovers a deepening vein of displeasure with the project that spans a wide political spectrum, in Manhattan as well as Brooklyn, among community leaders and urban planners. Gotham Gazette | previously 1 | 2 | 3 | etc View full entry
Four schools...I mean three...compete for final Urban Land Institute Gerald D Hines prize. Fixing LA: Connecting East LA to Downtown. Curbed breaks it down a bit... View full entry
NYTimes' design director Khoi Vinh muses universal tourist infographics, an idea that urban amenities can be designed like web apps: Tourist Usability |Subtraction View full entry
London wants to become the world's greenest city - after all, it's already the greyest. New Scientist Environment Blog. View full entry
In this hard-pressed city a proposal by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to demolish four public housing complexes has touched a raw nerve. The demolition, which would affect more than 4,500 housing units, represents for some the plight of a poor, black underclass displaced... View full entry
After Habitat for Humanity "mustered 50,000 volunteers, and raised $127 million," the NYT reports, the organization has only managed to build 702 homes in the entire gulf region affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. View full entry
Social networking for crime prevention? The digital neighborhood and the physical neighborhood coming back into focus with one another? read View full entry
In the BBC's Green Room: Seattle mayor Greg Nickels is hopeful that the US will soon join the global effort to tackle climate change...says more than 400 US mayors are committed to curbing emissions - something the White House has so far refused to do. link View full entry
South Miami City commissioners unanimously approved the moratorium, which leaders hope will stave off new, large construction while they take the time to tweak the land use code. Miami Herald View full entry
Before the Commercial Club of Chicago commissioned architect Daniel Hudson Burnham, cities were generally assumed to be hopelessly unmanageable places. In this country, where every man is sovereign, the look and habitability of cities was determined by countless individual decisions...by... View full entry
The Czech National Heritage Institute (NPU) disagrees with the planned construction of two skyscrapers in Prague's Pankrac neighbourhood as they would be close to the UNESCO-listed historical centre and thus spoil the city panorama. Prague Daily Monitor View full entry
Is www.kink.com (porn site-really dirty!) holding back gentrification while desecrating the local community? Some already decided...50 protest porn business inside old Mission Street armory ("As for the filming that has already taken place, Acworth said Princess Donna in her ropes and chains was... View full entry
