Where other mayors have faltered, Bloomie delivers. Deal Is Reached to Put Toilets on City Streets. Nicholas Grimshaw to design 'em. View full entry
In banishing the Marshall Fields name, Federated Department Stores is just doing to Chicago what it's done to cities across America, but the implications are anything but positive. Lynn Becker View full entry
"There were 5,000m-high mountains to climb, 12km-wide valleys to bridge, hundreds of kilometres of ice and slush that could never support tracks and trains. How could anyone tunnel through rock at -30C, or lay rails when the least exertion sends you reaching for the oxygen bottle? But that's the... View full entry
Embattled president Robert Mugabe denied the avoidability of famine in Zimbabwe, and defended his controversial slum clearance policy in front of the UN general assembly. BBC View full entry
Brooklyn park delineates class lines, as beautiful views will be draped with "chicago-effect" high rise buildings which pay for the parks creation. NYT View full entry
Through dense urban poverty, the Tysonization of poultry farms, and the dithering of government, he argues, we have created this monster. Confused? The influenza strain H5N1. AKA Avian Bird Flu. VV View full entry
At the recent kick-off party for Civilising Spaces, hosted by New London Architecture, Lord-Architect Richard Rogers declared support for the old, yet impressively persistent, plans of Ken Livingstone, London's mayor, to build more public green spaces throughout greater London (PDF). An added... View full entry
Richard Rogers and Norman Foster might get all the plaudits, but it is architects Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones who have been quietly reshaping the capital's cultural landscape. The Times of London View full entry
Researchers at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory have developed the Mobile Landscape project, which creates electronic maps of cellphone use in the metropolitan area of Graz, Austria. "The researchers used three types of data -- density of cellphone calls, origins and destinations of the calls, and... View full entry
An urbane triumph. Few flaws found on test drive of city's newest entry route - John King, Chronicle Urban Design Writer. SFGate View full entry
Online registration has begun for 2005 symposium "Sustainable Waterfronts, Learning from the Dutch Experience" which will begin September 29 & 30, 2005, at the Illinois Institute of Technology. This might be of interest to those who'd like to compare and contrast the New Orleans to the Dutch... View full entry
Toru Watanabe has gotten busy in order to offer an unrequested alternative plan from the Shibuya council's transit development proposal & promote discussion over approaches to urban regeneration. PingMag talked with Mr Watanabe about "Shibuya Common", a website where people can get... View full entry
The city of Seattle is talking trash. Via View full entry
Continuing the thread of news on China and massive new infrastructure developments there (see here and here), here is one on a railway in the clouds to Lhasa. | nytimes View full entry
Government officals in Bulgaria call for Sofia's future mayor to be an architect, urbanist and a liberal...SNA View full entry