David Brooks, conservative pundit and author of On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense, opines in the NY Times that the real genious of Karl Rove in 2004 was in reaching out to voters in exurbia.(related discussion) View full entry
"Over the years there have been a number of proposals for portions of Atlanta's historic belt line railroads, including the City of Atlanta's Cultural Ring project prior to the 1996 Olympic Games. In 1999, Ryan Gravel completed his master's thesis at Georgia Tech and took the project to a whole... View full entry
"Designers of the spatial landscape have never been architects," says architect Eyal Weizman, "but rather politicians and military men. Right now, most research on urban planning is carried out by soldiers and officers in uniform. Haaretz Related: Israeli Architecture Show to go to... Israel View full entry
India's National Trust wants the lavish gardens and homes designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens to be a World Heritage Site. Delhi's council has announced plans to demolish them. Justin Huggler reports View full entry
Bruce Mau troops on with Toronto's Downsview Park, "mired in talk, confusion and government paralysis." Read View full entry
“If not for the Loma Prieta earthquake, San Francisco's de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park would probably still be jammed behind a windowless wall of stucco-covered concrete.” Part 5 of 15 Seconds that Changed San Francisco : de Young construction panorama... View full entry
In the 13 years since Communism fell entire streets have been destroyed and replaced by faux period buildings with ornate and kitsch additions. Telegraph | via View full entry
"It must become a policy of Government that Government-funded projects be undertaken by local professionals at all times, as long as the expertise exists." An official in the Jamaican Labour Party voiced a deep concern about the lack of local involvement in major construction projects, fearing... View full entry
Gearing up to host the Commonwealth Games in 2010 , the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is finishing the first draft of The Master Plan of Delhi 2021 (MPD-2021) that will decide the future of the millennium city's skyline. However many critics are concerned the planning process has failed on... View full entry
Nashville should tear down the interstate loop that circles downtown and replace it with boulevards, parks and residential and commercial developments that reconnect the city's urban core with its surrounding neighborhoods, the Nashville Civic Design Center said yesterday. Read | via View full entry
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake that ravaged the San Francisco Bay Area. In a weeklong series, SFGate takes a look at the reconstruction that has forced the Bay Area to re-invent itself. Part 1: The Embarcadero. Thursday, Part 5 will feature a special look on... View full entry
Kamil Mahdi writes about a development project which hits at the heart of Najaf's old quarters. Related reading”¦ View full entry
The very controversial Politics of Israeli Architecture show that the Association of Israeli Architects censored from participating in an international conference in Berlin will be exhibited in Israel. Haaretz View full entry
London - Building 500,000 new houses risks water and roads crisis, says report. Guardian View full entry
...or pollution as mapping. Beverly Tang reblogs two scientific projects that seek to visualize the outputs of cities, revealing new ways of seeing space. First, the awesomely-titled MetPhoMod, a three-dimensional, eulerian, prognostic model for the calculation of mesoscale meteorology and... View full entry
