Kabul's new mayor, Mayor Ghulam Sakhi Noorzad, a Moscow-trained engineer himself, has resurrected a soviet masterplan from the 1970's and taken to the power of demolition in order to reset Kabul as he sees fit. But how applicable is this image of the city today in Afghanistan's current state? Read View full entry

Concept Meets Reality at Trade Center Memorial: It is just a few feet high. But it could profoundly affect a visitor's experience by creating the need for a wall running more than 200 feet along the Greenwich Street side of the memorial, marking an abrupt grade change between plaza level and... View full entry

Martha Baer , who recently co-authored SAFE, writes this special for SF Gate: a four part series on giving the Golden Gate Bridge an anti-terrorist retrofit. Part 1: Risk Assessment ; Part 2: Blast-Resistant Design. View full entry

ArchLeague releases their latest rev of WorldView, ‘Perspectives on architecture and urbanism from around the world.' This issue, OSLO: City On the Brink has lots of good stuff. View full entry

This short article by Kevin Danaher makes a good case for how our support of local green economies may be the most viable option we have for achieving a strategic progressive advance over the transnational corporate alliances that drive American imperialism. (via) View full entry

Residents of Cumbernauld, Scotland, have requested that their entire town be demolished for the UK's Channel 4 series Demolition. Read more at Daily Record. View full entry

Volunteer for the 2005 Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE) - On February 28, 2005, HOPE will include all five boroughs producing the first citywide estimate of unsheltered individuals. View full entry

The City of Los Angeles is currently looking for a new Director of Planning. After the experience of our last director, many of us in the region are eager for a director who plans, not just permits. Interested applictants should head to cityplanning.lacity.org or check the jobs posting here at... View full entry

Months after Florida residents survived four hurricanes, many areas still seem a ghost town waiting in vain for relief. Meanwhile, tsunami victims in India are still waiting for the government to meet its "impossible" goal of building enough transitional housing before the monsoons hit in a... View full entry

Virtual tour of LA's Red Line Subway View full entry

More on wireless urban hotspots, featuring Philadelphia's 135-square-miles of municipal Internet service. | nytimes | prev View full entry

the International Olympic Committee's Evaluation Commission is now in London, the city will be pristine for a couple of days for a change, the media is going hysteric!! Jonathan Glancey reviews some of the publications prepared for the honourable visitors. View full entry

The Bean ©: Thinking of taking pictures at MilPark, Chicago? Think again. (via) | Canadian Architects Design Green Wal-Mart - boxtank | we-make-money-not-art reports from the near near future at Berlin's Transmediale art and digital media festival. | Negroponte's... View full entry

Lisa Rochon, architecture critic for The Globe and Mail, organized a roundtable conversation with some of the city's leading designers to help explain why Toronto is stuck in a morass of mediocrity and what it would take to produce excellence in architecture and public space -- consistently... View full entry

How far can humans go to 'make' nature and will it ultimately save the city of Venice? IHT View full entry