• Homebuilders Looking for Handouts
• Warning! Misuse of Underground Transit Map Style will be ordered to cease immediately: Milky Way Transit Authority
• A tale of restoration and the Masstransiscope
• NYC Gets Graphic, as in cartoons
• Freshman congressman plans to sleep in his DC office to save on rent, thus proving you can lear everything about DC politics from The West Wing
• Architecture critic worries that ubiquitious surveillance isn’t aesthetically pleasing
• Stephen Fry on the beauty of “incorrect” language and the stupid futility of linguistic pedantry
• NYC’s Maple Syrup Smell Is Still A Mystery – complete with Maple Syrup Smell Map!
• Queens CB1 Chair: Secure Bike Parking Serves “No Purpose”
• Photos: New York in the Late 70s and Early 80s

• Craig Ward: Bad typography is everywhere
• Adaptive Reuse of Crashed Starships
• Critic: Libeskind’s Hovertube ‘Unavoidable Reminder of 9/11’
• Fortifications Tour
• Swiss public transportation logo
• How to Regulate Cabs
• Of networks, grids, and infrastructures, or: How to make a planet
• Top Ten Sustainable Style Stories of 2008
• Otl Aicher and the 1972 Munich Olympics
• Taipei Performing Arts Center
• The Topography of Community
• Free High Res Images of Earth
• Cars Are Expensive, Poor People Take the Bus
• Water and Power

• Reimagining Baltimore: The Plant
• Archiect’s 2009 Predictions
• Group moves homeless people into foreclosed homes
• On Gentrification
• Evolution of Game Controllers
• Pools at Foreclosed Homes Transformed into Illegal Sk8 Ramps
• Passive Houses
• A heartfelt view of the NYC subways
• Maps make the best logos
• Nuclear Urbanism
• Neither Festival nor Marketplace
• Get on the Bus
• Interstate Bike Trails
• Andy Mangold’s Monopoly Repackaging

• Utzons clash over Opera House refurb
• The Car Tax
• Great shot of Mies (Jog For Mies!)
• Posters: Hiroshima / Nagasaki / Chernobyl
• Moshe Safdie’s Springfield, MA Courthouse Breaks the Rules
• New York Mayor Proposes Charge on Plastic Bags
• Dear Transport Administrations: CountPeople Not Vehicles in your plans

• City Wants To Mandate Bike Parking in New Buildings
• Report: Ravitch to suggest East River tolls & Tolls for East River Bridges Freak Drivers Out
• A Trolleybus Named Desire
• Strange Maps: City Maps As A Rorschach Test
• Big City Barack
• Inside — and outside — the Second Ave. Subway
• Port Authority Boss Wants Federal Dollars For Jersey Transit Tunnel – that would be for Access to the Region’s Core
• Designing NYC Streets for the 21st Century

• Urban Explorers Trailer
• New Urbanism in North Augusta
• The Atlas of Hidden Water
• California High Speed Rail
• I Live Here But I Voted There
• The immersive sculpture of linked voids
• Urban Costco in Vancouver
• The Purple Line is cost effective and a great idea, too
• The Supersurface of Architectural Diaspora

• Guide: Using the Farmer’s Market
• Newspaper Endorsements in the 2008 US Presidential Election
• Garamond powerline
• Euclid Corridor BRT Opens
• Callie Shell’s intimate photos of Obama – Digital Journalist
• Learning to Love the Big Box
• Strange Maps: Taking Note of Old Europe

• The pitfalls of GPS-based advertising
• Metropolis Congress, Sydney
• Subway Video Screens to Show Real Time Train Motion
• Interview: Charlie Kaufman, Director: Synecdoche, New York
• AAgrotecture 1: King’s Vineyard London & AAgrotecture 2: Aquaculture
• Norman Foster to “Transform” New York Public Library
• The Man Behind the MLB Logo
• Get to Know SVA’s D-Crit Program

• Peter Dalsgaard: Warsaw MoMA (unrealized) – check out the thermo-chromatic concrete which becomes a display in its own right (via speedbird)
• California’s history of creating green jobs
• On UK’s new eco-towns, The Garden City, Revisited
• Colin Powell on Tolerance
• Affordable and still Green: Sandbag Houses by MMA Architects
• So Much Pileup: Feature Interview: Richard Stanley & Logos: Places and Spaces
• Diller Scofidio+Renfro Dancing Trees at Liverpool Biennial
• The World Trade and Climate Organization

• New Times Square TKTS Booth Finally Opens
• Also check out the NY Times Interactive TKTS Graphics
• Poster: Barack Obama’s Fifty State Strategy
• Density and Partisanship
• FYI: Rione di Borgo is the 14th historic district of Rome
• My Way, Plus a Highway
• People Who Know What They’re Talking About Versus Neo-Hooverism