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While Israel, on one hand, evacuates settlers from the West Bank, a new settlement construction project has begun there. Maskiot is apparently "a security buffer against Islamic militants based in Iraq, Iran," but most are calling it nothing more than the latest round of systematic land grab... View full entry
A design panel has chosen the plan from Dutch-led architects West 8 as the preferred way to unify the hodge-podge shoreline across the centre of the city. torontosun and here:thestarmore... View full entry
Issue 10 Next American City is now available, on the subject of transportation. Articles on the "Aerotropolis", how Kansas City is the "corridor of the future", Robert Bruegmann's book "Sprawl: A Compact History" and lots more. View full entry
The Navy Yard, a huge commercial redevelopment area here along the waterfront where two rivers ”” the Delaware and the Schuylkill ”” converge, fits somewhere between the paradigms of a dense downtown and a sterile suburban office park. NYT View full entry
NYC Department of Transportation gets all fancy with its final decision and purchase of bus shelters, newsstands, and public toilets designed by Grimshaw Industrial Design. ArchRecord l previous NYT View full entry
Amnesty International has released images showing the destruction caused in Zimbabwe by the government's policy of forceful house demolitions in 2005.bbc View full entry
Airport urbanism , aviation cities, and the emerging Aerotropolis offer incomparable convenience by growing according to a rational system based on time-cost access gradients radiating outward from the airport. | nextcity View full entry
From NYT headlines: Under tremendous and conflicting pressures, with the 9/11 memorial planning process seemingly spinning out of control, Gretchen Dykstra resigned today as president and chief executive of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. View full entry
A town in Missouri has begun fining unmarried couples, with more than one child, $500 a day - because not being married is, like, totally un-Christian... The ACLU is now on the case: town planning gone bad at The Guardian. View full entry
As Joan Baez ties herself to a tree, nobody is putting any money down to save country's largest community garden in little south of downtown Los Angeles.10B people and activists. Reference point; 10mil needed, 1/1000 of 10bil. Didn't uncle Eli tell us great urban planning only goes 'el norte'?... View full entry
The second, and final, part of a two-part interview with Mike Davis - discussing bird flu, William Gibson, Viggo Mortensen, Pentecostal evangelicals, etc. - is now up on BLDGBLOG. Here's Part One. View full entry
Singapore "wants to stimulate tourism and other service industries by molding a more tolerant, fun-loving" version of itself. This will include huge, Las Vegas-style casinos. View full entry
Seattle debates its desire to tear down the Alaskan Way Viaduct citing examples from San Francisco to Milwaukee. | seattlepi. (via) View full entry
New concept in Las Vegas. There will be Jerusalem limestone, Dolomite and Alicante marble from Spain as well as pilasters, domes, cobblestones and statues and restaurants (read 'pizza pizza'). The development will feel like an aging complex that has evolved organically over several hundred... View full entry
