All Africa (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Angola's Urbanism and Environment Minister, Sita José, on Friday left for the coastal Kwanza-Sul province, where he will debate with the local authorities matters relating to territory organisation there, Angop has learnt.
Archinect (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Set up in 1981 by James Brown and Kim Storey, the Toronto-based office produces designs and research studies in architecture, public space, urbanism and infrastructure
Kiplinger Personal Finance (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
While high-end cities try to appeal to the "creative class," "opportunity urbanism" aims at building a broad business base and strong middle-class.
CNN (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Director of Arup, Peter Head is leading the company's new department of Planning and Integrated Urbanism.
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... using an entirely new approach to zoning, modeled after a philosophy sometimes called "new urbanism."Planning Director John Wesley said the board is required to hold hearings on major general-plan amendment requests away from its usual venue.The board won't take action Thursday, Wesley said, but it and the City Council are moving on several fronts to approve the DMB and Pacific Proving plans...
The Creativity Exchange (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Eric Torbenson provides a humorous dose of urbanism in in the New York Post: Defibrillate the suburbs - if you can. The tenets of suburban life are the oxygen in the economic bloodstream, and the nation is suffering hypoxia. The...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Berlin's newly-christened $143-million American embassy, "designed by the Santa Monica firm Moore Ruble Yudell, is something of an anti-monument -- a five-story, low-slung, sandstone-colored palimpsest on which is inscribed the complicated history of urbanism in Berlin, the troubled state of U.S. embassy design and the pitfalls of slavishly contextual architecture."...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | yesterday
DMB and Pacific Proving are seeking major amendments to Mesa's general plan, reflecting a desire to build mixed-use developments using an entirely new approach to zoning, modeled after a philosophy sometimes called "new urbanism."
The Bellows (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
One of the nice things about blogging for a living is that when your wife has to go to San Diego for a week of AP training, you can pack up the laptop, go with her, and blog poolside, never missing a beat. Then you can take a day trip to Los Angeles and file it under Urbanism Research, at least until your accountant tells you that won’t exactly fly. Anyway, I’ll be in sunny California next week,...
Fool.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... investment hypothesis somewhere on the assembly line.Although demographers are noting a "New Urbanism" taking shape as high gas prices and home foreclosures lure many suburbanites back into the cities, costly commutes will remain a fact of life for countless workers with deep roots in the 'burbs. Assuming that scores of suburbanites continue to rely upon their automobiles, it seems possible...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... those values were highly regarded by the Swedes, who came relatively late to modernity and to urbanism, and who, even in the 1970s, still bore traces of the devout, fiercely evangelical Protestantism that drove their grandparents (alcohol stores are still obliged to close at 3pm on Saturdays). A belief in graft as a moral virtue, a form of self-improvement that was also bound up with a nation's...
