Santa Fe, NM>Bill Richardson signed an Executive Order mandating all State buildings to "Energy Efficient Green Building Standards" PDF View full entry
Detroit mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick "is so determined to show Super Bowl visitors a new face for his beleaguered city that he is willing to sacrifice its Motown roots. This week, wrecking crews began taking down the long-abandoned office building that was home to Motown Records from 1968 to 1972."... View full entry
In Seattle, "one of the biggest private urban makeovers in the country is briskly taking shape under [Microsoft's Paul Allen's] hand. While his better-known partner in Microsoft wealth, Mr. Gates, is spending his fortune on reshaping the world, particularly global health and poverty, Mr. Allen... View full entry
"In recent years, Macquarie has become the envy of Wall Street by buying the rights to operate infrastructure projects including ports, tunnels and airports, as well as toll roads, packaging them in funds and reselling the stock in those funds to the public, minting money at each stage along the... View full entry
Koolhaas (...) claimed that a combination of private sector-dominated redevelopment, risk-averse culture and a crackdown on anti-social behaviour were conspiring to create soulless cities. Further Koolhaas used Las Vegas as an example of how private sector-dominated regeneration and risk-averse... View full entry
One of the largest, if not the largest , urban community garden in the US is under threat. "In one of the most industrial areas of Los Angeles stands a 14-acre garden with banana trees, sugar cane and every vegetable you can imagine... For more than a decade, hundreds of mostly immigrant families... View full entry
ok, so that is an oversimplification, but Douglas Coupland has been commissioned w/ Greg Smallenberg to design a park in downtown Toronto. The "'design will attempt to create the concept of urban parks for future generations,' said Alan Vihant, vice president development for Concord Adex. 'Their... View full entry
"Architect Chris Hardwicke envisions a day when you will walk out your door, jump on your bicycle and commute to work at 40 kilometres an hour through dedicated tunnels suspended above city streets. He calls his idea Velo-City, a transportation network of concrete and glass tunnels through which... View full entry
More on New Orleans relearning from Netherland's Detla Works Project, where 50 years before the Dutch had learned from the Big Easy. BBC l previous View full entry
South Korea has begun to develop the territory next to the 50 year old DMZ which seperates the North from the South. The push North is propelled by the continued growth of Seoul...NYT View full entry
For at least 855 years, the village of Sipson has stood on Middlesex fields. By 2020, however, it will almost certainly have vanished to make way for Heathrow's third runway. Guardian View full entry
A new, somewhat uninspired article in Forbes about the world's tallest buildings: there's a lot of them, for instance, and they're getting taller. Forbes. View full entry
A $3.2 billion solar energy plan was approved in California on Thursday to create one of the country's largest such programs. CNET View full entry
Homelessness is pervasive in Los Angeles County, and communities from Brentwood to East Los Angeles have men, women and children living on the streets, according to a new report that offers the most detailed examination to date of who is homeless and why. LATimes View full entry
Ricky Burdett, curator of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition for the Venice Biennale talks French riots, starchitects, and Caracas. | nytimes View full entry
