• Spacing Is Everything
• One Dead Media: Edge-notched cards
• Assembly Transpo Committee Kills Bus Lane Enforcement Bill
• Jason Santa Maria’s A New Day
• Web Typography At It’s Best
• Optima Won’t be Running for President

• City ponders Port Authority role at Moynihan Station
• How can urban areas, such as San Francisco, increase density where zoning or public opposition make new construction very difficult?
• Adam sees the future of urban life in Citysense
• Mystery on Fifth Avenue – Architect builds a Rube Goldberg-type series of messages, games and treasures for his client’s
• Friend or Foe Museum (via Draplin
• The New Face of Mencap
• Train Spamming

• Walter Burley Griffin and his Art Deco incinerators
• A Tacoma Streetcar Ridership survey noted a bus line carried 175,000 people a year was replaced by a streetcar, and ridership jumped to 800,000 a year
• Twitter and Lifecasting Privacy
• The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock
• China: Olympic outhouses catch on fire, explode
• Geometry Town
• 
  Olafur Eliasson has seduced Mike Bloomberg with a spectacle to rival The Gates

• Bus Rapid Transit – Deficiencies and Defects Someone at Town Hall I agree with??
• On Libertarian Transit Thought (there, that’s better)
• Two Ryan Posts For Tuesday: On American High Speed Rail
• High Speed Rail Projects in the United States: Identifying the Elements For Success (via Ryan)
• Dispersion of those in poverty dispersed crime: American Murder Mystery
• Wellness By Design
• On the Difference between McCain and Obama’s Climate Policy – vast and deep differences abound between the two men

• 65-foot Erector Set skyscraper weighing 16,000 pounds at Rock Center
• Once Grand, Now Bedraggled – City Officials and Neighbors Peeved by Abandoned Embassy Properties
• Well-managed sprawl can make a city liveable
• A Lot-Ek Solution
• Cribs: Bernard Tschumi Edition
• Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, designed by Daniel Libeskind
• On Chinatown Buses: Dreams and Desperation on Forsyth Street

• Manhattanhenge is Tonight and Friday Night
• On the Yale Art & Architecture Building Renovation
• On Philip Johnson’s The Alice Ball House and threat of demolition
• Speaking of PJ, Glass House Moleskines
• Animals of the Underground
• Recalling the suburban gas riots of 1979
• On the Metro Expansion: Here Comes Tysons

• MoMA Web Exhibit: Color Chart
• Duesseldorf Betriebshof Wersten
• David Hertz’s 747 project
• UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design Publishes “Thought Matters II”
• I Want to Be a Landscape Architect
• Leaning Tower of Pisa ‘saved’ for 300 years
• Green Tech Proving Ground: European Marine Energy Centre

• Can sea barriers save New York from global warming’s perfect storm?
• The Other Night Sky
• DHL + GPS = Biggest Drawing in the World – or not, it was a Hoax. Screw You Internets!
• Researcher Pushes Enormous Floating Solar Islands
• Rogers attacks eco-towns as a big mistake
• 10 Clever Architectural Creations Using Cargo Containers – hello 2000!
• On the growing American Shift to Mass Transit

• Is New Urbanism A ‘Last Gasp’ Attempt to Reform Suburbanism? Probably not.
• Spanish firm offers $12.8 billion to lease Pa. Turnpike
• A Better Way to Zone
• The Next Street Art
• On Kubrick’s 50mm f/0,7 lens Lyndon Lens
• Transbay Joint Powers Authority Board Awards Contract to Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
• Zaha Hadid’s Olympic Aquatics Centre has tripled in price

• Land Use and Carbon Emissions
• Deep-water city-states & Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies
• On ubiquitous tracking: Path intelligence, indeed
• Photo Essay: One Night In Beijing – August 8/9, 2007
• Bart Lootsma: Koolhaas, Constant and Dutch culture in the 1960’s
• Strange river sculptures: Horror by the River
• Bank Logos