Drive south and west from the center of Miami, out past the malls and big-box stores, past the incessant march of cars and houses, and you will be in a transcendent place. This is the historic Redland, a landscape dotted with farmhouses, groves and fields of winter crops. There is not much of it... View full entry
Land use, infrastructure, and open space policy play an important role in shaping metropolitan growth, and whether or not they are coordinated on the policy level, they do interact with each other in shaping those patterns. However, the exact interplay of these policies is not well understood... View full entry
Former Bogota Mayor Enrique Penalosa changed the spirit of urban planning in depressed areas of the Columbian capital. Now some in the South Bronx see the Bogota precendents as a method to cure their neighborhoods of urban blight. WNYC View full entry
500 cams, "ring of steel" for NYC: Hundreds of additional cameras could follow if the city receives $81.5 million in federal grants it has requested to safeguard Lower Manhattan and parts of midtown with a surveillance "ring of steel" modeled after security measures in London's financial... View full entry
Westerners who travel to the Middle East often pass through Dubai and sigh deeply. "If only the rest of the Muslim Middle East were as free as Dubai," they say before flying back to Amsterdam, London, New York or wherever they call home. Dubai, The Model? View full entry
From the Great Pyramid of Giza to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, nearly everyone knows about the seven wonders of the ancient world. These spectacular monuments were first celebrated by Greek historian Herodotus during the 5th century BC. As impressive as his list may be, it's by no means... View full entry
One must remember that Chinese buildings have a shorter life cycle; a building that might be put through a renovation in the West when it ages is often torn down in China. But perhaps deeper than this is a sense that China has experienced such turmoil in its past that nothing is permanent, even... View full entry
"The not-so-mighty Los Angeles River meanders 51 miles through the middle of the L.A. basin. It has been largely ignored since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers channeled it in the 1930s, but is finally being recognized as an important natural and economic resource." ArchRecord. Earlier. View full entry
Barcelona is a city that knows how to make a freeway sexy -- and it's not just dreaming. It builds seemingly before lunch every day what New York City can't seem to accomplish in a generation. This [exhibition] is not simply a collection of luscious designs by big names. Prepared by Barcelona... View full entry
Federal officials issued unexpectedly lenient guidelines today for rebuilding the flood-damaged homes of New Orleans, potentially allowing tens of thousands of homeowners to return to their neighborhoods at costs far less than they had feared. NYT View full entry
Especially little old ladies from Pasadena - or in this case, Sunland, when they walk too slow. Officer cites 82-year old woman for being too slow to cross the street View full entry
What would London look like if it flooded? "Scientists have been investigating the effects of a 7m-high wave travelling up the Thames, using computer simulations. The "virtual storm" is part of a £6.5m project at the UK Met Office, and is seen as crucial to forecasting the ways... View full entry
"The leader of Milton Keynes Council has pledged to fight government plans to break up the grid road system, which has become synonymous with the city, to make way for a sustainable new housing development." Well, it is Milton Keynes... BD. Somewhat related. View full entry
San Francisco on Wednesday chose the high-tech team of Google and EarthLink to bring free, wireless Internet access to virtually everyone in the city, possibly by the end of the year. Read View full entry
Residents of gentrified downtown lofts don't want to live next to the LAPD's new home, but a park as they expected. LATimes View full entry