UK critics call for a healthier approach to building and environmental design. In the US that might just translate to smaller food courts at the mall. From the Guardian View full entry
"New London Architecture, which opens next month, lacks its own views of the cityscape but it more than makes up for that with its vast 1:1500 bird's-eye model of the capital, from Paddington to Stratford, Battersea to Camden, dotted with scale versions of the city's new architecture being built... View full entry
Liverpool has an incredible architectural past but always seems to struggle with the future. Andy Kelly offers some highlights of whats to come including the Grosvenor masterplan, Wilkinson Eyre, Haworth Tompkins, Ian Simpson, et al. | echo Grosvenor masterplan Simpson's tower Wilkinson Eyre... View full entry
Kim Campbell interviews Joel Kotkin in the cs monitor. (prev) View full entry
"An innovative project turns waste into fertilizer, helping clean the streets and the air. " CS Monitor checks out Waste Concern, an NGO founded a decade ago in Dhaka, whose leadership in global recycling may benefit even further through new Kyoto Protocol funding. View full entry
Nothing gets built in Chicago without city oversight and support. What makes the difference between triumph and disgrace, and what's planning got to do with it? (originally published in the Spring Summer/2005 issue of the Harvard Design Magazine) read View full entry
"The Safdie Plan [for West Jerusalem] will be a disaster for generations to come. We must oppose it," declared Environment Minister Shalom Simhon last week, at a press conference convened by the Sustainable Jerusalem Coalition, an umbrella organization for more than 60 ecological and... View full entry
In the lives of cities, boldness and vision rarely follow catastrophe... (ed's note: this article is posted in the Wired NY Forums and I have not found it on the New Yorker site. How it got there is unknown at this point). View full entry
Gensler will manage a $4.7 Billion, 66 Acre city for the MGM Mirage in Las Vegas, said to be the largest current privately funded project in the United States. It involves megahotels, boutique hotels, major avenues, "residence clubs," wining and dining, retail... the basics. read View full entry
New book claims environmental movement should change focus from wilderness to cities and suburbs. SMH View full entry
"As the world's only superpower, America may look today as if global domination is an entitlement. But if you look back at the sweep of history, it's striking how fleeting supremacy is, particularly for individual cities." N. Kristof on shifting fortunes for cities, looking especially at... View full entry
The Chinese city of Shenzhen blasted 16 buildings down covering 51000 square meters, to make way for a more modernized version of the community. English news article | Hong Kong Source with photos View full entry
Berlin, centrally located in the EU is positioned to be the center of arts and culture for the new Century. Frieze View full entry
PBS's News hour has an interview with Architectural Record's editor Robert Ivy at the WTC where he sorts out what goes where. check it View full entry
The Africa Union of Architects (AUA) will soon meet to discuss the future of urbanization in Africa, facing issues from Urban Poverty and Infrastructural decay to financing urban development with programs like injecting mortgage homeownership models into Sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile, Cairo's... View full entry
