• Port Authority Sets Its Sights on Robust List of Projects
• HOK’s 2012 Olympic stadium design revealed
• Forced to Run Straight, a River Must Now Twist
• Can you support a new Trans-Hudson rail tunnel which would take cars off the street but make suburban NJ growth easier?
• Calatrava’s Chicago Seashell Spire – Chicago always brings the crazy-tall out of architects; c/f The Illinois
• The Bottom Line – Its all about Data
• Digital London – a digital model with over 3 million buildings in it

• Embattled architect Robert Scarano Speaks
• Gridlock Sam’s Compromise Plan & Fact Check: Congestion Pricing is Not a “Regressive Tax”
• MIT, Skanska Gang Up on Gehry
• Nellis Air Force Base goes Solar
• ‘Paula Scher: Recent Paintings’ Opens Today
• Jake’s Glendale Power Station photos

• Strange Maps: The Ideal City (Anno 1951)
• Gridlock: NYTimes asks readers congestion reducing proposals
• New Map of London
• Lebbeus Woods is looking for writers
• As Beaches Erode, So Do Solutions – building on barrier islands makes for very pretty locations and houses, but is very bad land use policy
• Time for Some Jane Jacobs Revisionism?

• Bloomberg Calls for Tax on Carbon Emissions – Ryan wants to elect him the King of Awesome
• SimCity Societies: A Greener Version of the Urban Jungle – The much-anticipated game update will address how cities are built with the environment in mind
• Vintage NYC Photos
• Wearable Anti-Avalanche Homes
• On the DC Metro: Core
• We hope that our continued membership in the association ofweblogs [which] act like sluice gates, simply helping the flow of culture along without adding to the volume of water in any way brightened up your day

• Gitmo’s Portable Justice
• Video: This Is Marina City, circa 1965
• Envisioning Hudson Square
• Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House Heads to Auction – Photos
• Morphosis PhareTower (pdf)
• FLLW’s The Illinois, or crazy huge skyscraper
• World Stadiums – Historical Stadiums

• Communist design – Communist economy could manufacture spaceships and send people on orbit, but was utterly inept—and will always be, in any if its iterations—at building a nice spoon.
• Video: Minneapolis Architecture – see also my photos of the Walker Art Center
• Funding keeps California high-speed rail project alive
• For those not in the know: Introduction: The Panopticon
• Simple Answers to simple questions: London’s Dutch capitulation Is the fashion for getting Dutch firms to work on Olympic and Gateway projects down to superior skills or is it just a political fad? Fad, next?
• Cincinnati Considers Streetcars
• Slideshow: Instant Housing and Designing for Disaster
• Survey Reveals Americans Preference For Transit Development

• Jacob Javits Plaza: Reconsidering Intentions by John Hill
• America’s Most Sedentary Cities
• On cycling as an extension of the public transportation network: The Bogotá Transformation: Vision and Political Will
• On Boston’s Big Dig HOV Lanes – The roads less traveled: Built to ease traffic, HOV lanes are largely unused
• Plan: Make Bay Area drivers pay for global warming – read the primary source: MTC Transportation 2035
• California Regional Rail Plan

• bldgblog muses about the North American Water and Power Alliance
• Dreamed City at the Edge of the Abyss on Rhonda, Spain
• More US Warcraft players than farmers
• On The Vignellis
• NASA refuses to disclose air safety survey
• Fun with time-lapse video: Cities Elapsed
• Sculptor Erwin Wurm

• Artkrush Interview’s The New Museum’s Lisa Phillips
• Mark Brecke: War And Weddings
• Broadacre City – Frank Lloyd Wright’s agrarian-suburban fantasy
• Excellent Reading List Urban Planning 540: PLANNING THEORY
• Excerpt of Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities of To-morrow
• Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam
• Revealed: Apple’s Sydney shopfront
• Dear Global Warming, Thanks in Advance! Greenland
• Eames House of Cards – we have these at home, and they are great

• If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers, funny this sounds exactly like what architects have to do on a daily basis
• Refresher: What is Congestion Pricing?
• Videos: Crown Hall by Coudal Partners & Jeff Scher’s Grand Central
• Skinny Houses
• Surface Navigation Help for Subway Riders
• Re-imagining the Concrete Masonry Unit: 12 Blocks
• DIY Culture: Favela fantasy gives rise to Gaudi house