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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Click here to see today's news: Florida and Bishop discuss how cities and communities are increasingly attracting people with similar everything. -- King finds it "distressing that a citizens' initiative seeks to scuttle" a fresh vision for Napa River plan. -- Hume is heartbroken and disturbed by "wasted opportunities" on Toronto's waterfront. -- Baltimore architects offer a different vision for new arena that "could support the city's revitalization efforts," says Gunts. -- London residents find an odd loophole that may defeat Foster tower. -- The last days of a Glasgow housing project "built on hope," but leaving "nothing but broken dreams." -- Gallagher is upbeat about plans to build condo project out of shipping containers. -- Heathcote visits Abu Dhabi. -- An in-depth look at how susatainable criteria will affect built forms on Harvard's Allston campus. -- An eyeful of London's Maggie's Centre: "refreshingly contraption-free." -- It's landscape architect on how he brought the "healing power of a scented woodland to an urban setting." -- For the first time, landscape design has a place at the Venice Biennale. -- Philly's City Hall never looked so good, so what do we do with it now? Saffron wonders. -- Arieff on the sad state of "cubicle culture for kids" - and some promising green projects. -- Rockwell takes on a new generation of play spaces to be built across the U.S. -- Speaking of play: a Canadian Council on Learning report: let the children play. -- Not so fun: AIA's Architectural Billings Index issues glum news. -- Call for entries: international competition to design a bicycle and bridleway bridge over the River Douglas in Preston, Lancashire. -- School news: Preston Scott Cohen to chair Harvard Department of Architecture, and Kenneth Schwartz steps in as dean at Tulane School of Architecture. -- We couldn't resist: Kunstler warns suburbia that it will run out of energy very soon (on The Colbert Report of all places!).
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