Since it has been so smooth with the first one... NY1 View full entry

The NYTimes covers today gold and computers, from birth to death, and what that implies for poor places. After a month-long investigation, "much of the gold left to be mined is microscopic and is being wrung from the earth at enormous environmental cost." Behind Gold's Glitter. Similarly, a new... View full entry

A look at the logic behind the Commissioner's Plan of 1811 for the NYC street grid. nytimes View full entry

Blatantly obvious, yes. But apparently the US Census Bureau on Thursday released its first-ever estimates on daytime population changes. Lake Buena Vista, FL, is an amazing case in point. It is a strictly daytime city. From 16 residents, it grows to 30,768 during the day from workers commuting to... View full entry

"The Wal-Mart shopper can go into Wal-Mart and shop, and when they are ready for their appointment, the beeper goes off and tells them that they can come back and their office visit is ready," boxtank | wesh View full entry

In this article on the history of "urban mapping" and the production of the 'image of the city,' Peter Whitfield traces the artistic depictions which strived to capture the city in its entirety, before political and military powers evolved and found greater needs for images that functioned with... View full entry

La Vanguardia reported that a 2001 commission for the plaza de las Glòries by Zaha Hadid is not getting funding. The project included movie theatres and ceremony halls, besides the outdoor areas. The article mentions that Hadid may get building commission at the Forum of Cultures as... View full entry

As Geoff reported in August (read that article reprinted here), today we see a new revisitation of Hoffman's policy revision on the National Parks System. Hoffmn's original reason for revising the 2001 management policy was because he thought current law facilitated "anti-enjoyment." This new... View full entry

Geoff Manaugh ...to the Archinect team (or as he likes to call it, the Brady Bunch page...Will one day have animated faces where we all look and smile at each other). Manaugh gets dosed up on 'roids and writes those amazing cabinets of landscape curiosities on BLDG|BLOG. He drives one of these. View full entry

As Microsoft signs-on to become the first "seven-figure-sum" sponsor of London's new Wembley, housing goes spectatorial inside an Osaka baseball stadium in the photos of Naoya Hatakeyama. But then there's DC, and Vancouver, and New Orleans, and Brooklyn, and... stadiums, stadiums everywhere, and... View full entry

The Chinese building boom: is it a housing bubble? Well... What's a bubble? "China's real estate market is so hot that miniature cities are being created with artificial lakes, and the country's nouveau riche suddenly seem eager to put down as much as $5.3 million for a luxury apartment in... View full entry

"We need to push for the equitable distribution of resources. You cannot have homes that lack the most basic things" BBC View full entry

It's goodbye to mao and hello to Europe's top architects, all Australia's iron ore... and half the World's concrete. With its sights set on Olympic gold, Beijing is being rebuilt round the clock. By Deyan Sudjic View full entry

The housing cartel known as Toll Brothers continues its monopolistic reshaping of the American domestic landscape, with vast new tracts of identikit housing, creeping into farmlands, displacing forests, colonizing the plains: New York Times. See also artist Jason Salavon's brilliant housing... View full entry

Brooklyn Atlantic Yards developer (among many other blue chip projects) first builds bridges. "The project's supporters - as well as Mr. Ratner's associates - see these tactics as smart business. But opponents see the outreach as something more sinister: a campaign to divide opponents, co-opt... View full entry