• Coming up at the Storefront: Ramak Fazel: 49 State Capitols, I hate to say this, but I had the exact same idea; but Fazel pulls it off better then I could have
• Call for ideas: White House Redux; What would the White House look like if it was designed today?
• On exhibition: Imaginary Arsenals examines the subtle and subversive use of war imagery by artists.
• Smith Storage & Stool (design page) by Jonathan Olivares
• I’m Out of Toll Pun
• A DC two-fer: On eliminating the height limitations in Washington DC and regarding the Silver Line, Failure at the FTA
• Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa

• The Living City – you, go, read, now!
• Madison Square Station?
• Design Police: bring bad design to justice
• AIGA’s efforts to improve the way we vote
• Lyons-Dubai
• Google’s UK Carbon Footprint Calculator
• Designing affordable Housing in Philadelphia, the 100k House

• Commuting and social life, the longer you commute, the less social links you keep
• The Other San Francisco
• On silly NY Sun thoughts about congestion: Think Harder: surprise, surprise: NY Sun lying through statistics
• Transit systems of Mega City One (from Judge Dredd, via A.G.)
• Marcella Durand on the Infinite Library (via)
• The Urban Pollution Monitoring Project

• America’s Favorite Architecture – call in now to American Idol
• Power-hungry Google launches green energy scheme
• Dymaxion map
• Brad Pitt Commissions Designs for New Orleans – Make it Right
• The progressivity of congestion pricing
• Light Rail Coyote
• Another huge NYC infrastructure project is announced: Hudson-Crossing Cables to Feed NYC Electricity
• The Graffiti of the Philanthropic Class, see Museum, New.

• Canberra, Three of the Good’uns
• Algae Power
• Streetsblog: Eliminate the Parking Requirement
• The Ultrabuilder: Bill Baker
• Schwarzenegger calls for privatization of California’s infrastructure – such a horribly bad idea, where to begin
• The Suburbs: Post-Levittown
• British WW2 propaganda posters
• Architect: Plant Identification Thread – what, a topic without slander!?
• In Miles of Alleys, Chicago Finds Its Next Environmental Frontier
• Air Pollution Google Earth Mashup

• London: A city built on chaos
• Unreast on the West Side? A play in Two Acts: The Hudson Yards hustle and West Side Rail Yards Proposals Depress NY Times Critic
• Architecture by Accident
• For those with Brazil fantasies: Automatic City Builder – Gamr7
• Accordion-Shaped Building to be Squeezed into City of London
• On Choices – at the city, state & Federal level, especially considering our Federal government has quite the unenlightened view on land use and transportation
• Columbia’s expansion into Manhattanville is approved at the City Planning Commission. Is it bad form to support expansion of a vaunted university?
• Does Washington Need a Planning Commission?

• About that plan to “speed up” Thanksgiving air travel. Verdict: not going to work & preposterous.
• Per yesterday’s post about Vornado Realty Trust and the Hotel Pennsylvania, comes Save the Hotel & Living It Up at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
• Jon Hicks’ slideshow of typography from the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (via)
• Skyscrapr’d: The necessary corrective
• Long-title-blog-rant-of-the-day: Awesome Panoramic View of East River, Manhattan/Queens/Brooklyn Skyline from Southpoint Park that will be Ruined by Proposed Louis Kahn/FDR Memorial; very well. It isn’t as if we sport long named entries.
• Clinton Presidential Library is awarded LEED Platinum rating
• Pittsburgh Set To Allow Density Bonuses For Green Buildings – a LEED Certified or higher building will be eligible to be 20% larger
• Paris Underground – An extensive network of abandoned quarries, sewers and subway lines twists beneath modern Paris.

• A summary of this weekend’s New York’s Green Future conference, which I could not attend
• Using Vector Magic to turn raster maps into vector files
• Amazing SketchUp work at Viz&arch – you, look; now!
• Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos
• West Side Yards Proposals On Display For Public
• On a generative Urban Lobby

• Model of Post-Apocalyptic NYC
• Beijing’s Central Heating turns on Today – low-income housing is heated through a regional central-heating system
• Transbay Tower Design
• Ametrica!: An Interview With Amy Wang
• Google Earth is the Novelty Wearing Off? The Occupied Virtual Earth
• This week ConEd disconnected the last DC service in NYC – as Kottke said, Nikola Tesla always wins in the end.

• Coney Island Amusement District May Be Preserved As Park. Long story short: Bloomberg proposes to turn the Coney Island Boardwalk area into “parkland” which would prohibit the large-scale condos and development Joe Sitt envisions. Good show Mr. Mayor.
• The Future of Cities: How Sprawl and Racism are Intertwined
• Digital Urban and CASA in Second Life
• Pyramids to reduce noise Schiphol Airport via bldg|blog
• Lebbeus Woods on the aesthetics ethics of the Seagram Building by Mies van der Rohe: Noblesse Oblige
• Waiting for Godot in New Orleans and the The ‘Ad-Hoc’ Redevelopment of New Orleans