The mayor of Baghdad threatens to resign over state of city | Speed up the barrier, said Sharon, they approved the final Jerusalem barrier , 55,000 pal's are cut off, the EU is still only concerned. | Jenin took ten days to destroy and three years to rebuild. | barriers to China's UNOCAL bid |... View full entry
WNYC hosts a spirited debate on affordable housing in NYC, which has broad implications for all cities in the boom. View full entry
The conversion of Manhattan into a monstrous mall for the affluent continues the push the old city out to the periphery, as Fulton Fish Market moves to the Bronx. NYT View full entry
A rival developer has submitted a proposal to counter the Ratner plan for a Nets Arena and housing in Brooklyn. The scale? Not 60 stories max. but 28, no eminent domain required. The designers? Not Gehry, but Cetra/Ruddy, a local husband and wife firm, who have proposed...a three-block long... View full entry
Single family dwellings and the quest for perfect living in Los Angeles. From the LA Times View full entry
After a neck and neck race with Paris, the six ring circus and the urban transformations that follow will take its show to London in 2012. | BBC | prev | discuss View full entry
In light of the G8 Summit next week and the UIA conference in Istanbul, bdonline has a great series of articles on issues facing the African continent. Other stories: Profiling Columbia's mass displacement | Empowering slum dwellers in Mumbai | Strategies for achieving sustainable cities for... View full entry
Austin's new standards address some of the problems of big box stores as an attempt to curb sprawl. Read | via "Austin's Commercial Design Standards apply to all new construction and redevelopment along major thoroughfares and scenic Hill Country roadways. They address landscaping; materials on... View full entry
The Census Bureau will release its latest population statistics, showing that Detroit was not on the list of the top 10 most populous American cities for the first time since the 1900 census. l NYT l related l View full entry
The J'lem Interior Ministry has appointed Attorney Gideon Vitkon, an independent investigator, to weigh the mounting opposition to Safdie's western Jerusalem plan. Critics argued "that investment in the suburbs of the city will cause irreparable damage to Jerusalem's center city and demanded that... View full entry
Steve Brooks, a principal at OZ Architecture, and Carl Worthington, the firm's director of urban design and planning, will head a team to design a visionary master plan for the revitalization of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Read Into Africa Boulder architects to design master plan for Kigali... View full entry
"That schism dates from the 1960's, when the activist Jane Jacobs challenged Moses' megalomaniacal plans, but it has little relevance today. For architects like Mr. Pasquarelli, the suburban promise embodied in Moses' freeway and park projects represent, for better or worse, a part of our... View full entry
Kabul: A City of Old? Or All Shiny and New? (prev) | Jewish settlers defiant of being moved, are surging to West Bank | HCM city unveils plan to destroy polluting industrial complexes | Crime-busting cameras hit streets of Mass. | Critics lay into Blair on ID cards | Uganda tries to overhaul its... View full entry
The joyful postindustrial playground, which has brazenly discarded the old industrial age model of the serene urban park, is blowing equally strong winds of change across the cityscape that surrounds it, altering a museum's plans, boosting real estate prospects and (perhaps) opening doors for... View full entry
Urban planning, with Christian values View full entry
