Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge has asked the planning department to come up with citywide guidelines on how big is too big. la times View full entry

"New Orleans will be Detroit, they say, a sickly urban wasteland abandoned by the middle class. A moldering core will be surrounded by miles of vacant houses, with wide-open neighborhoods roamed by drug dealers and other criminals. The new New Orleans will be merely a grim amplification of its... View full entry

REBAR is seeking volunteers to help us a carry out a series of PARK(ing) installations throughout the city of San Francisco. read more at Inhabitat View full entry

Beverly Hills may replace concrete sidewalks with something less pedestrian but more paparazzi. la times View full entry

Robert Neuwirth poses the question on his blog, and is generating an interesting discussion. How do we define sustainability in this context? With the sustainability of the modern city called in to question by global warming, energy crisis and peak oil, what will a squatter sustainability bring... View full entry

A look at MetroFi and how advertising is being counted on to bring free Wi-Fi to the SF Bay Area and beyond. SFGate View full entry

"For the past year or so, Mayor Bloomberg's top brains have been working, sometimes fitfully, always secretly, on a massive, bold plan to reshape the city." NYO | A blog releases a document it claims is a secret "new urban planning vision for New York City" developed by the consulting firm of... View full entry

An Indian village has uploaded itself onto the Internet, giving the outside world a glimpse of life in rural India. Rueters Indian village uploads itself onto Internet Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:57 PM ET By Jonathan Allen HANSDEHAR, India (Reuters) - An Indian village has uploaded itself onto the... View full entry

With a new megamall, modern-art museum and bold plans for the future Istanbul is joining the 21st century. Times Online View full entry

In Fort Greene, a reorganization of development power and a "ninth-inning good idea" for a theater site. NY Times View full entry

In the summer of 1934, Robert Moses, the parks commissioner, had issued a blueprint for his dream: 11 Olympic-size pools scattered in downtrodden sections of the five boroughs. At a time when the city had not yet rebounded from the effects of the Depression, the pools would provide work to... View full entry

Following the popularity of the images published in Dubai's Potemkin City some more images from Dubai's new billboard city, anticipating the construction of the largest hotel (5,044 rooms) in the world.Transcity.eu View full entry

The Bollard Era is upon us, soon anything and everything will serve as some sort of security barrier, just some less obvious than others. But can a fortress - even an invisible one - allow for a strong and open civic experience? Read | NYC style | prev View full entry

Over the last ten years, this city of 1.5 million has experienced an urban renewal that has made it one of the most attractive and livable cities in the country. Now, however, legalized gambling is coming to Philadelphia - and its impact is a crapshoot. The Next American City | previously |... View full entry

Taking a cue from successful religious movements, New Urbanists and pro-property rights advocates have eschewed the planners' traditional tools of charts and graphs in favor of the preacher's tools of allegory and myth. Using the power of stories and images to connect principles to people's... View full entry