Jože Plečnik exhibition on through the end of August.

Quoted: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 - Sunday, 31 August 2008
Brussels, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Quoted: Tunneling into the fascinating dark underbelly of the City of Lights

Quoted: World's fastest growing cities and urban areas: 1 to 100

Quoted: The Making of Global City Regions traces the emergence of each city in the global economy and examines the link between the dynamics of globalization and changing urban governances. The contributors describe how metropolitan leaders deal with the twin phenomena of globalization and the devolution of the state as they adjust to their city's new emerging role in the global system.

Quoted: Kalpana Sharma is an independent journalist, columnist and media consultant. She has been, until recently, Deputy Editor and Chief of Bureau of The Hindu in Mumbai. In over three decades as a full-time journalist, she has held senior positions in Himmat Weekly, Indian Express and the Times of India. Her special areas of interest are environmental and developmental issues. She writes a fortnightly column in The Hindu's Sunday Magazine section, The Other Half, that comments on contemporary issues from a gender perspective. She has also followed and commented on urban issues, especially in the context of Mumbai's development.

Great Q+A on the new book, Endless City, from Where.

Quoted: After a tiny bit of prodding, the folks at Phaidon sent over a review copy of the recently released book The Endless City, edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic, and containing essays by the likes of Saskia Sassen, Enrique Peñalosa, and the indefatigable Rem Koolhaas.

This talk looks really interesting. There is also a book on the subject, titled "Large Parks."

Quoted: A panel discussion with James Corner, Julia Czerniak, George Hargreaves, Linda Pollak, and Ken Smith. Large Parks presents essays on an increasingly hard to define landscape type, the urban park, viewed through the lens of size. Such study cuts across conventional binary categories of classification—historic or contemporary, built or unbuilt, competition-sponsored or commissioned—and enables review of landscapes not usually considered collectively.

This is an amazing site on international cities...

Quoted: A blog by Rahul Srivasteva and Matias Echanove on adventitious roots, urban forests and villages, natural cities, lost tribes, lost nomads, and everything in between.

Quoted: Urban Neighbors celebrates a glorious and often overlooked phenomenon of New York City: the abundance of wildlife within its five boroughs. It refutes the canard that pigeons, cockroaches, and rats are the city’s only local wild fauna.