This month, Saudi Arabia revealed its plans to build the Kingdom Tower, the world's first mile high building, which will double the height of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, currently the world's tallest skyscraper. But going beyond the obnoxious and hubristic qualities of the tower itself (did no one ask, "Is this reasonable or necessary?"), there's a bigger jaw-dropper: the proposed construction of an 80,000 person, 23 million square meter city, to be built from scratch, so the Kingdom Tower has something to rule over. This is not good urbanism.

Facing a mounting housing shortage, squatters have transformed an abandoned skyscraper in downtown Caracas into a makeshift home for more than 2,500 people.

Just as the distinctively named Shard of Glass, the Helter Skelter, the Cheese- grater and the Walkie Talkie are being erected across the City, the architect who created the eye-catching Gherkin has declared the London skyscraper building boom is nearing its end.

Are cities the best place to live? Are suburbs OK? A fight grows in urban planning, with Harvard at the center

Before this moment, our relationship to Delicious had been that of a tick to an elephant. We were a niche site and in the course of eighteen months had siphoned off about six thousand users from our massive competitor, a pace I was was very happy with and hoped to sustain through 2011. But now the Senior Vice President for Bad Decisions at Yahoo had decided to give us a little help.

AIR, like the cross-platform widget toolkits and application frameworks that came before it, is the gray mystery meat of client-side software. It gets the job done, but it’s hard to stomach. For anyone who used a computer in the 1990s, AIR probably brings back scarring memories of Java apps: slow, ugly, inconsistent, awkward.

Dan Cruickshank explains the beauty of Palladian proportions, takes us on a tour of some key English country houses, describes the poetry of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseilles and says Georgian Palladian architecture was Britain’s reaction to Catholic baroque.

New Urbanism is an urban design movement, which promotes walkable neighborhoods that contain a range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s and continues to reform many aspects of real estate development and urban planning.

Arcology, a portmanteau of the words "architecture" and "ecology",[1] is a set of architectural design principles aimed toward the design of enormous habitats (hyperstructures) of extremely high human population density. These largely hypothetical structures would contain a variety of residential, commercial, and agricultural facilities and minimize individual human environmental impact. They are often portrayed as self-contained or economically self-sufficient.

Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre is a regional shopping centre located in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England which is about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of London. It is managed in two separate parts, thecentre:mk and Midsummer Place. Thecentre:mk is a grade II listed building.

Urban, city, and town planning integrates land use planning and transportation planning to improve the built, economic and social environments of communities. Regional planning deals with a still larger environment, at a less detailed level.

The Garden city movement is an approach to urban planning that was founded in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained, communities surrounded by greenbelts, containing carefully balanced areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.

San Franciscans tend to view the artificial Treasure Island as a blur on the bridge to the East Bay: the 400 acres have been semi-abandoned since the Navy shut down its base in 1997.

That's about to change. In the next six months, San Francisco officials and a consortium of private developers will begin to finalize legal papers for Treasure Island’s future as a high-density eco-city. Boosters hope the project will deliver jobs to construction workers, profits to contractors, taxes to the city, and new homes in a tight housing market.