In the latest news of the rivalry between the NY Jets (and the Mayor's Olympic aspirations) and the owners of Madison Square Garden over the future of the western edge of Hell's Kitchen, the bids are in for redevelopment of the MTA railyards. The winning proposal will be chosen by the end of... View full entry
The massive 1937 Nazi retreat development, Prora, is still in an ambiguous transformative state. Could it become the next holiday destination or art colony? | guardian | more | also: shrinkingcities + allinclusive View full entry
Not only is LA looking for a new planner, so is San Francisco View full entry
SF Gate's John King argues that the prevalent use of landmarks processes for the purpose of anti-growth obstructionism stands to jeopardize the credibility of the preservation movement. Read. View full entry
David Holley for the LA Times wrote this interesting article on the history of the capital of Kazakhstan, now Astana, and the president's hope of turning it into one of the 21st century's most beautiful cities, financed in part by the country's booming oil industry. -- Building Kazakhstan's... View full entry
“I would rather see Hong Kong spend this money on education and training so we can compete globally,'' says Stanley Li, a 47- year-old Hong Kong taxi diver. "Will a museum really help me and my family?'' Hong Kong gets all kinds of warnings about importing Bilbao and embracing... View full entry
Deyan Sudjic hones in on the coastline development phenomena, with nods to Barcelona, SF, Edinburgh, and Sydney. | scotsman View full entry
The Essex County township in NJ is the latest to consider an Anti-McMansion Ordinance, restricting the size of houses built on lots that once held much smaller homes. Locals are dismayed by a teardown-phenomenon taking over the area's historical landscape. Leading the opposition is a local... View full entry
Jim Kunstler's The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century: The interview covers geopolitics and near term ramifications of oil depletion for cities, suburbs, and towns, as well as long term structural changes... View full entry
Rogers/SHoP plans for East River move along and seem to get much better, but Curbed just chuckles. Board likes East River Plan Changes. View full entry
"It's really big," said Marsha Rummel, president of the Marquette Neighborhood Association" A new urban development is being planned for downtown Madison, WI, potentially beginning new era of tall buildings in the college town. read|via View full entry
The search for a new Director of LA's Dept of Planning continues, amid controversy. | LA Weekly | LA Downtown News | An Open Letter to the Next Director View full entry
Massive urban project begins with train track tunnelment. EuskoTren hq building by Zaha Hadid and residential towers by herself, FOA, Eduardo Arroyo, Dominique Perrault & Roberto Ercilla with Miguel ÃÂngel Campo. Previous | 'operación Durango' View full entry
Two mega-projects turn up in the Times today that take some relatively forgotten or ignored places and try to turn them around. But is the new a step towards more of the same (i.e. hotels and retail)?: Connecticut Hospital for the Insane to become a $1.6 billion movie studio, theme parks, hotel... View full entry
"It is aesthetically and architecturally incoherent, and, unlike Manhattan, Barcelona or Paris, essentially suburban. It is also, however, hugely successful and consistently fashionable. So why has London got such useless public space - and will it, indeed should it, ever change?" From the... View full entry
