Cities: June 2009 Archives

Detroit Votes To Demolish 1923 Lafayette Building

More vandalism from the Detroit Undevelopment Authority.

Architecture - Demise of Gehry Design for Nets Arena Is Blow to Brooklyn - NYTimes.com

Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff: "Arenas are notorious black holes in urban neighborhoods, sitting empty most of the year and draining the life around them."

Britain's Labour Lessons For Obama | Newgeography.com

Joel Kotkin says the landslide defeat of Labour in local and European elections may mark "the decline of gentry liberalism." "Gentry liberalism - which reached its height in Britain earlier this decade and is currently peaking in the U.S. - melded traditional left-of-center constituencies, such as organized labor and ethnic minorities, with an expanding class of upper-class professionals from field like media, finance and technology."