With yesterday’s long-delayed opening of Pier 1, the 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park is now approximately seven percent complete! OK, so there’s still a long way to go until New York’s third great urban landscape is whole—but, if this first section is any indication, it will be worth the wait. (source metropolis magazine) Read more…

Green energy pioneer and former head of the London Climate Change Agency, Allan Jones MBE, is set to transform Sydney into a low carbon city. (source australian review) Read more…

The High Houses are proposed as part of the reconstruction of Sarajevo after the siege of the city that lasted from 1992 though late 1995. (source spaceInvading) Read more…

Shenzhen is a phenomenal city. Banham’s quip about LA – "a city seventy miles square but rarely seventy years deep" – is doubly true of Shenzhen: 150 square miles, but rarely 30 years deep. Yes, an instant city of 14 million people and thus, as I say, phenomenal. But it is also a city absolutely without charm. (source iconeye) Read more…

A great post on Urban Omnibus investigates the potential of implementation of urban reforestation blended into existing buildings in our urban areas. (source landscape and urbanism) Read more…

CityCenter Las Vegas, which officially opened last week, is the largest (18 milion square feet of buildings on 67 acres of land) and most expensive ($8.5 billion) private development in the city, probably the country. It is actually a close-packed complex of buildings, each designed by a different, well-known architectural firm. (source wall street journal) Read more…

Caught between the past and the future, Oslo is constantly struggling with expansion while maintaining its charactiristic low density. (source worldview) Read more…

The Watersquare creates a sustainable solution to the flooding of cities
With their design for the Watersquare, Dutch company De Urbanisten offer a new solution to the flooding of cities due to heavy rainfall. As part of the Rotterdam Waterplan 2, an urban policy by the City of Rotterdam to look at ways to store and control water. (source wan) Read more…

The challenge is enormous: make Seattle the first carbon neutral city in North America by 2030. (source Seattle Times) Read more…