Atlantic City has finally found something about Las Vegas that it doesn't want to copy: the way it looks. NY Times View full entry

J Gardner, NYSun, dissects the architect's impulse of personality (@WTC) by contrasting Nobel's Sixteen Acres with Goldberger's Up from Zero. | nysun | article The Power of Personality BY JAMES GARDNER January 3, 2005 Several years ago, if memory serves, three films devoted to the Joey Buttafuoco... View full entry

To ask people to nominate one era of New York's history as its golden age is to ask for trouble. Nevertheless, 14 prominent New Yorkers with a keen sense of the city's past and present, from novelists like Cynthia Ozick to architects like Robert A. M. Stern to public figures like Vartan... View full entry

MGM Mirage, the $4 billion hotel and gambling behemoth, is spending some $3 billion of the house's money on a major real estate play to transform 66 acres on the Las Vegas Strip into a mini-Manhattan. Think condominiums, boutiques, restaurants and movie theaters, all within walking distance. | NYT View full entry

The United Nations has asked to use the land in a small city park for the construction of a new office tower. But some City Council members want to nix the plan because they believe the UN is anti-Israel. WNYC View full entry

Detroit gets new weapon against urban blight. To make the area more conducive to yuppie habitation. Free Press View full entry

Is your Local Mall a thing of the past? Maybe if you had contacted these guys, they could have helped save it... View full entry

Steve Lopez, LA Times gadfly lunches with mall developer Rick Caruso at The Grove and comes away feeling that his latest Lifestyle-Style malls turn somewhere into nowhere. View full entry

Housing Crisis Causes Alarming Increase In U.S. Homelessness - New Standard | from Planetizen | prev View full entry

Places such as Lakewood define a large part of the Los Angeles experience — the "not quite middle class" blend of comfort and anxiety that comes with precarious ownership of a small house on a small lot on a street of nearly identical houses that still... View full entry

Unesco appeals for help as Dam threatens Iran's heritage sites. The flooding of the eight-mile Tang-e-Bolaghi gorge because of the construction of a dam will destroy ancient Persia's imperial road which ran from Persepolis to Pasargadae.(the Guardian) View full entry

Great site that documents the disused and ghost stations of the London Underground. Snoop around. | underground View full entry

Gated communities and sprawl are not just for the wealthy in Lima. "Known in its modern heyday as the "garden city," Lima is in danger of taking on a new moniker: the "caged capital." More than 1,000 gates now block public streets in neighbourhoods across the city, rich and poor. And almost none... View full entry

Fictional Urbanism strikes again. This time outside Cleveland, a $420 million, 1.6 million sf development is half-complete but soulless. | plan | plaindealer | prev View full entry

The Boston Central Artery--the Big Dig--is causing more agony. (See how it leaks and also discourages other big infrastructure investments). Several projects were agreed upon as part of the mitigation, but state officials have failed to deliver the biggest three. Some officials contend that after... View full entry