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A brand new city in South Korea -- wired with smart grid technologies, a real-time control platform, deep sensing, simulation, and advanced analytics -- has accidentally downloaded a major computer virus.

April 1, 2011 - Planetizen April 1st Edition

As green spaces and public areas increase in demand, more and more projects are being awarded to landscape architects rather than architects, some foresee a potential professional turf war.

March 30, 2011 - The Architect's Newspaper

Building sizes have been creeping upward for centuries, but green building expert Jason McLennan argues that smaller structures are better, more beautiful, and ecologically inevitable.

March 29, 2011 - Yes!

As a part of its series on pressing issues that should inform the current Canadian federal election, the Globe and Mail examines how other cities around the world have undertaken affordable transportation innovations to ease traffic congestion.

March 29, 2011 - The Globe and Mail

Livejournal has posted a series of paintings that ran as part of a 1961 Motorola advertising campaign that depict a futuristic lifestyle and featuring cavernous modern living spaces.

March 28, 2011 - Livejournal

Landscape architect and designer Ken Smith talks about some things that inspire him, such as William H. Whyte's classic book The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.

March 26, 2011 - Fast Company

This visualization compares the costs of providing water in cities across the world, and shows how those costs have grown or shrank in recent years.

March 25, 2011 - Kraeutli

This collection of city profiles looks at cities around the world that are making major improvements to the way they handle and provide water.

March 24, 2011 - National Geographic

When the airport was built in Santa Barbara, California, engineers dammed the surrounding wetlands to prevent flooding and to keep birds from gathering. A new restoration refutes those conclusions, and paves (or unpaves) the way for other airports.

March 21, 2011 - Miller-McCune

Architect Norman Foster, who worked with Buckminster Fuller towards the end of his life, recently rebuilt Fuller's Dymaxion Car to exacting specifications. Metropolis Magazine interviewed Foster about what we can still learn from the Dymaxion design.

March 21, 2011 - Metropolis Magazine

This podcast from The Guardian explores why cities have grown in population and what economic forces are behind this shift.

March 20, 2011 - Guardian

This video from Streetfilms explains the concept of congestion pricing and looks at how it can affect cities and their mobility.

March 19, 2011 - Streetfilms

This slideshow from Grist takes a tour of the top ten cities in the world for walking.

March 18, 2011 - Grist

Our annual list of the 10 best planning, design, and development websites represents some of the top online resources for news, information and research on the built environment.

March 17, 2011 - Abhijeet Chavan

Architecture critic Paul Goldberger says that the real change in the last couple of decades is that high-quality design has become more mainstream, even if a lot of stuff is still "lousy."

March 17, 2011 - The Atlantic

Two unique urban journalists meet, as Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG interviews Greg Lindsay, Fast Company's cities reporter, about his new book Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next.

March 17, 2011 - BLDGBLG

The study conducted by Latitude Research and Next American City followed 18 participants in San Francisco and Boston as they ditched their automobiles for other transit options.

March 17, 2011 - Next American City

In the wake of the disasters which devastated parts of Japan, Russell Nichols of Governing investigates the state of disaster preparedness in US cities and states.

March 16, 2011 - Governing

A design student from the Royal College of Art, London raises the question of whether urban design can be used to bridge the gap between humans and animals which share urban environments.

March 15, 2011 - GOOD Magazine

Larry Beasley, Vancouver's former chief city planner, was hired to help develop Abu Dhabi's very ambitious Plan 2030.

March 14, 2011 - Regarding Place Magazine