Buidling the urban ring [ Boston Globe ] 8, 2008  PIZZA CONTEST OPENS SEASON - The Massachusetts Cultural Council has awarded a $40000 matching grant to bolster the city's annual Third Thursdays series, ... Read More ...

Amid soaring food prices, urban farms ar [ Pittsburgh Post Gazette ] 8, 2008  Newly incorporated and using city-owned land through a garden waiver, the North Side cooperative is one of a small spate of urban farm projects occupying ... Read More ...

Can city farmers stand in for supermarke [ Huffington Post ] 8, 2008  Which is precisely where urban growers make their mark: Providing solid proof that, supermarkets or no, even the city's more modest neighborhoods are ... Read More ...

Condos increasingly attractive to urban [ Ottawa Citizen ] 8, 2008  Forty-eight per cent of city-dwelling Canadians said they would consider buying a condominium as their primary residence, up significantly from the 39 per ... Read More ...

The Urban motorboarder's back-up Bus + f [ Los Angeles Times ] 7, 2008  At the time, public transit seemed like a radical idea -- sheer craziness, in a city where cars are fashion statements. As I stuck my head under the car to ... Read More ...

Urban planners push for First Mariner Ar [ Bizjournals.com ] 7, 2008  ... rebuild one area of the city, while redevelopment of the existing venue can help invigorate Baltimore's west side, he said. The Urban Design Committee's ... Read More ...

Urban Farmers' Crops Go From Vacant Lot [ New York Times ] 7, 2008  Before long, Mrs. Wilks, an administrator in the city's Department of Education, was digging in the yard after work. Once their ambition outgrew their yard, ... Read More ...

City of dreadful knights [ Hindustan Times ] 6, 2008  Ah, the great Indian city! The lack of urban infrastructure destroying the infrastructure of the human soul. By 2020 Mumbai will have a population of 20 ... Read More ...

Urban leaders meet for summit on reprodu [ Newsday ] 7, 2008  NEW YORK - Big-city mayors are kicking off a summit to discuss reproductive health for women in urban areas. It's an issue many of them say is bogged down ... Read More ...

Time to stop building cities without sou [ China Daily ] 8, 2008  Yet the city in the wild desert is a nightmare for urban planners, as it has developed with little planning. Even though Las Vegas hosted the centennial ... Read More ...