The town of Gateshead by Newcastle, is experiencing rapid regeneration. Read article from the Guardian. View the photo gallery as well. View full entry
Project for Public Places announces the (disputable) 20 Best Neighborhoods in North America. Anyone from Granville Island? View full entry
How regulators derailed California's most environmentally progressive development, according to Michael De Alessi in a free market journal. Read View full entry
Tokyo's impressive underground waterways to control city floods captured in a Japanese image gallery. Via BoingBoing, "a directory of wonderful things"...indeed. View full entry
In the past few months Tesco's supermarket express shops are appearing everywhere in London. Unfortunately English supermarkets are way behind the Austrian ones when it comes to Architecture. (the Guardian) View full entry
Speculations on the future of West Chelsea, NYC: High Line, condos, Hudson Yards, skyscrapers, and a stadium. Oh, and maybe still art. | nytimes | backlash View full entry
California may someday tax drivers by the mile, not the gallon. Doing so might affect a trend towards more fuel-efficient cars and will require an unprecedented surveillance society. Read View full entry
Andrew Shanken was writing his dissertation on the culture of wartime architecture in the United States during World War II at Princeton University when he made a fortuitous discovery.... Read View full entry
The Village Voice examines through mapping, the US Prison expansion and its cost to urban neighborhoods. View full entry
Chairman Daley takes a page from Jeremy Bentham with plan to install 2,000 camera's around Chicago. View full entry
Going with the flow: Science can be used to design cities according to rational laws, writes Philip Ball. Related: space syntax View full entry
Behind-the-scenes rumblings of moving the Snohetta museum complex away from Libeskind-planned site; too much of a shadow-caster and view-obstruction where it is? Calatrava major proponent of move to eliminate columns through his transit hub; Libeskind protests (with a straight face?): "First of... View full entry
Kmart purchased Sears, and the resulting giant is to be the third largest retailer in the USA. NYTimes View full entry
Peter Lewis, insurance mogul, board-of-directors staple, patron extraordinaire, bites into Case Western University Circle of backers for failing to "to generate activity and street life somewhere near the university." Lewis is known to speak his mind to important groups large and small. Read View full entry
San Quentin State Prison in Cali back in the news: The thirst for a new death row meets the opposition of those who would like to develop the waterfront property for major cash moe-ney. Governegger supports the expanded death row, by the way. Read & related. View full entry
