Well we've all heard of the Palm, which is now on its third iteration. Get ready for the World - made up from 300 smaller island developments -> its a small world after all... via Core View full entry
Urban designer and architect Doug Suisman's plan for Building a Successful Palestinian State with a high speed rail line linking Gaza and the West Bank. View full entry
Another big scoop-o-news on all things common to 'military urbanism', the prosthesis of surveillance, border passwords and the absence of policy, and mapping the forcible evictions of a billion people.All your base. BLDGBLOG has an excellent follow-up on the newly renovated urban assault training... View full entry
Summer blazing heat can be used to prevent roads from icing up in winter. Prototype model installed in the UK. wm$na & New Scientist View full entry
THE Queen is planning to create an underground network to extract heat from the earth's natural warmth and cut energy bills at Buckingham Palace. The Sunday Times View full entry
Stepping up attacks on Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the four Democratic candidates Friday laid the blame at his doorstep for what they described as the stalled redevelopment of Ground Zero. Newsday View full entry
NYT : DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug. 18 - Spent shells litter the ground at what is left of the firing range, and camouflage outfits still hang in a storeroom. Just a few months ago, this ranch was known as Camp Thunderbird, the headquarters of a paramilitary group that promised to use force to keep... View full entry
Moscow's subway system, each station of which was designed to be a "palace for the people," is now 70 years old. The Boston Globe narrates a (brief) tour: "Each station has a unique design using elaborate decorations and materials from all over the country, including granite, quartzite... View full entry
City and state officials, in a memorandum they never released, promised the developer Forest City Ratner six months ago that they would arrange for the firm to obtain the rights to build almost 1.9 million square feet of residential and commercial space in downtown Brooklyn, even if the... View full entry
Everybody in moscow should attend this nights presentation of the arch(X)change workshop. A workshop moderated by Jan Stoermer (Hamburg) and James Mc Adam (London/ Moscow) on the topic of Cultural Identity by architecture... Three Teams of young professionals (blauraum(Hamburg), team05 (Berlin)... View full entry
From the man who brought you Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler's new book The Long Emergency forsees the coming crescendo of oil based economies (especially the US) and the fall of late capitialism...Lopate View full entry
Who's the tallest and fairest of them all? Britain is going skyscraper-crazy, with plans for higher and higher towers. Without strict rules they will change the face of our cities. Times of London View full entry
It's "a novel way of looking at city detritus." "In Dhaka... the overwhelmed city garbage company only picks up half of the 3,500 tons of waste discarded each day; the rest is left to rot in streets and sewers." Yet by "converting trash into organic fertilizer, [a Dutch company] reasoned, small... View full entry
Collective bike schemes started in the 1960s, but Lyon thinks it finally has one that works with Vélo'v. By 2007, there should be 4,000 cycles and up to 400 racks in the city - which is one roughly every 300 metres. | guardian | related View full entry
22 residents outside Charlotte, NC have banded together to sell their neighborhood as one super-sized lot. | nytimes View full entry
