#Urban Development

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• 🇺🇸 Trump touts newly released plans for D.C. triumphal arch — 11/04/2026 [USA]

  The proposed 250-feet-tall, white-and-gilded monument would stand on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., by the Potomac River.

  Related: #Architecture, #Washington D.C., #Donald Trump
• 🇺🇸 Dubai, eternal city — 11/04/2026 [USA]

  Why, amid the uncertainty, the city’s professional class holds an unshakeable belief in its resilience

  Related: #Economic Resilience, #Business Confidence
• 🇺🇸 Designs unveiled for Trump’s proposed 250-foot arch in Washington — 10/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Politics, #Controversy
• 🇺🇸 Why I will always love Canary Wharf — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The business district in London’s Docklands demonstrates what innovation and invention can achieve

  Related: #Economic Transformation, #Architectural Innovation
• 🇺🇸 This Hungarian Town Explains Why Orban Could Lose on Sunday — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Lake Balaton was beloved as a vacation spot. Now, luxury real estate projects serve many friends of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and the locals are fed up.

  Related: #Politics, #Corruption
• 🇺🇸 Brooklyn Mirage to Reopen in June as Pacha New York — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The venue, which was almost demolished last year, plans to return under new ownership on June 20

  Related: #Cultural Preservation, #Nightlife Economy
• 🇺🇸 Indianapolis councilman says shots fired at his house and a 'no data centers' note left on his doorstep — 07/04/2026 [USA]

  A city commission voted last week to allow rezoning for the data center in council member Ron Gibson's district. He has publicly backed the project.

  Related: #Political Controversy
• 🇬🇧 Long lines, martinis and memories as LA says adieu to cherished restaurant Taix — 29/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>The 99-year-old Echo Park favorite is being bulldozed for apartments – Angelenos are losing a slice of city history</p><p>I was not hungry when I arrived at Taix on Thursday night, Los Angeles’s ve...

  Related: #Cultural Preservation, #Los Angeles History, #Community Identity
• 🇺🇸 The Slum in Gangnam, the Richest Part of Seoul — 29/03/2026 [USA]

  The city wants to redevelop a shantytown in Gangnam district, where hundreds are defying eviction, fighting for a right to own a home in an area notorious for the exorbitant cost of housing.

  Related: #Housing Rights, #Social Inequality, #Urban Conflict
• 🇬🇧 Potential sites for Labour's 'new towns' cut to seven — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Six sites have been deprioritised from the flagship scheme to build a wave of new settlements.

  Related: #Housing Policy
• 🇬🇧 Ministers confirm locations for seven new towns in England — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Programme is being billed as the most ambitious housebuilding project in England for half a century</p><p>Ministers have confirmed the locations for seven new towns, which include under-developed i...

  Related: #Housing Policy
• 🇬🇧 Ten years of acrimony finally at an end as Millwall get a new lease of life | Barney Ronay — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Transformative 999-year deal is a massive moment in the history of the club and the violent cultural push-pull of London</p><p>I have in my hand several hundred pieces of paper. Dog-eared, scribble...

  Related: #Sports
• 🇬🇧 Snoop Dogg wants to turn Swansea into Vegas - but some think 'he should leave us alone' — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Rapper Snoop Dogg has announced his own 10-year plan to make Swansea the "Vegas of Wales".

  Related: #Community Response
• 🇬🇧 ‘Where have all our front gardens gone?’: Sydney’s supersized driveways eat into yards — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Research shows average front garden size has declined by 46% in areas where older low-density homes have been replaced by larger, modern houses</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/au...

  Related: #Environmental Impact
• 🇺🇸 AECOM joint venture to oversee NYC sewer tunnel project — 16/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Infrastructure
• 🇺🇸 If we really want more housing, we should reduce design requirements — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  'The very design features [the authors of a recent op-ed] criticize — setbacks, pop-outs, jagged roof lines and plane changes — are all among the architectural design features from which I am required...

  Related: #Housing Policy
• 🇺🇸 Bucking stigma, more places turn to factory-built for affordable housing — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Manufactured homes have long faced stigma and been confined to trailer parks. But with updated designs – and zoning codes – more suburbs and cities are turning to them for affordable housing.

  Related: #Affordable Housing
• 🇺🇸 Is Jim Morrison’s Favorite Laurel Canyon Hangout About to Become a Liquor Mart? — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Laurel Canyon’s storied Country Store has been sold. But what its new owners plan to do with it remains unclear.

  Related: #Historic Preservation
• 🇺🇸 Century Living acquires Denver site for 116-unit apartment project — 10/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Real Estate
• 🇬🇧 Is Glasgow losing the spaces that made it an arts powerhouse? — 08/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>The closing of a cluster of leading creative venues has led to dismay and intensified fears the hubs that fostered Glasgow’s celebrated arts scene are disappearing</p><p>By the time Daisy Mulhollan...

  Related: #Arts Decline
• 🇺🇸 Historic District Rules May Keep NoHo Parking Lot From Becoming Housing — 07/03/2026 [USA]

  Some residents in the Manhattan neighborhood are fighting the construction of two apartment towers, which could rise up to 19 stories on the site of a parking lot.

  Related: #Historic Preservation
• 🇺🇸 Sam Smith’s San Francisco Residency Charts New Course for the Castro — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  The reopening of the iconic Castro Theatre comes amidst a busy few months for San Francisco, which recently saw a number of stars in town for the Super Bowl

  Related: #Cultural Revival, #LGBTQ Heritage, #Celebrity Impact
• 🇺🇸 Mamdani touts productive meeting with Trump on housing — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday touted his “productive” meeting with President Trump at the White House, during which the mayor said they discussed the prospect of building more housing...

  Related: #Housing Policy, #Bipartisan Cooperation
• 🇺🇸 Anonymous donor gives Japanese city pile of gold to fund pipe repairs — 20/02/2026 [USA]

  The mayor of Osaka says a mystery donor's gift of 46 pounds of gold, to help bring the city's water pipes up to scratch, left him "speechless."

  Related: #Philanthropy, #Infrastructure
• 🇬🇧 Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6m in gold bars to fix water system — 20/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Osaka's mayor says he is 'lost for words' and that he has 'nothing but appreciation' for the gesture.

  Related: #Infrastructure, #Philanthropy
• 🇺🇸 A Police Parking Lot in East Harlem Will Become Affordable Housing — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  The project is the latest example of a push by New York City to build homes on land it owns. The building will be 100 percent affordable, officials say.

  Related: #Affordable Housing, #Public Land Use
• 🇺🇸 In Venice Beach, it's taken nearly a decade to not build low-income housing — 15/02/2026 [USA]

  The Venice Dell project has been approved again and again, only to be stymied by local officials who oppose it.

  Related: #Housing Policy, #Local Governance
• 🇺🇸 Building Cities from Scratch — 12/02/2026 [USA]

  We explore one possibility for relieving the U.S. housing crisis.

  Related: #Housing Crisis, #Sustainable Communities, #Innovation