Heidelberg Project

Cool Hunting

Newark Zoning

Limiting New Business Downtown

n+1 postcard from detroit

Not necessarily for distribution, but a certain kind of background information: http://nplusonemag.com/postcard-from-detroit

Wind Factory Jobs in NOLA

http://www.brighterenergy.org/14943/news/wind/hundreds-of-jobs-for-new-orleans-in-plans-for-wind-factory/

New Yorker, New Orleans

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2010/08/katrina-five-years.html

Detroit land use plan

from Mayor Bing: http://www.freep.com/article/20100817/NEWS01/100817031/Bing-s-land-use-plan-to-reshape-Detroit

Business projects in Detroit

http://www.freep.com/article/20100817/NEWS06/100817029/11-business-projects-could-bring-114M-in-investments-to-Detroit-area

Grants could boost Newark's recreational facilities

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20100817/NEWS01/8170309

Interview with Mich Landrieu

Mayor of New Orleans: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-16/new-orleans-mayor-mitch-landrieu-on-rebuilding-his-city/?om_rid=DbhuJT&om_mid=_BMavBvB8SuGENg&

Detroit population density

http://www.freep.com/article/20100815/NEWS01/8150429/1320/Population-density-to-guide-Detroits-destiny

Detroit bouncing back

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/business/14auto.html?_r=1&src=busln

Recent Rebuilding NOLA articles

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/lessons-in-resilience-from-new-orleans/
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/08/new_orleans_scales_back_recove.html
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/14/mccartney.rebuilding.neworleans/

Make it Right photoessay

In Flavorpill

Newark History on eBay

http://glocallynewark.com/2010/08/unearthing-newark-history-on-ebay/

Urban projects in Detroit

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-mi-placemakeraward,0,5662720.story

http://www.freep.com/article/20100810/COL10/8100373/1322/Palace-purchase-could-make-Detroits-future

America by the Numbers: @ Newark Public Library

"America by the Numbers: A Look at the Census Bureau" includes historical documents, maps, charts, photographs and facts relating to the census.

Ward by Ward: New Orleans in Lens

Worst Cities to live

New Yorkers may curse the city's traffic jams or the sweltering heat, but the Big Apple isn't one of the worst places to live, according to WalletPop's new list.

Newark, Miami and Los Angeles made the outlet's Top 10 Worst Places to Live, which used criteria such as unemployment rates, health and climate data, crime stats and the number of foreclosures.

Newark, the closest city to make the dubious list, qualified for a few reasons: More than a quarter of its residents reportedly live below the poverty line and the city also is trying to close a $70 million deficit, according to the site.

WalletPop chose Miami for its reported 40,000 foreclosures and for having one of the highest crime rates in the country.

Los Angeles landed on the list for topping another worst list: the American Lung Association's list of cities with the worst ozone pollution.

Other "worst" cities include El Centro, Calif,, where one in four residents is out of work, and Cleveland, which gets brutally cold and snowy winters, according to the site.

Rounding out the rest of the list were Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Detroit and Memphis.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/08/09/2010-08-09_newark_and_miami_top_the_10_worst_places_to_live_in_the_us.html#ixzz0w9XFPhfC

Cleveland Mall Design

Cleveland Planning Commission applauds Mall design, but postpones approval

Volunteers in Detroit

ARISE Detroit's big volunteer effort took place all day Saturday at various locations in Detroit. Hundreds of volunteers did everything from cleaning up trash to pulling weeds, painting and construction.

Read more: Volunteers hope to transform Detroit -- one building at a time | freep.com | Detroit Free Press

More Detroit Developments

Design Public

Detroit, overgrown

http://www.imanka.com/detroit-no-oasis-in-the-desert-john-kossik.html

Newark Design Competition

239 Collective: DESIGN NEWARK

The Report Itself

New Orleans Index at Five

New Brookings Report Results/ Analysis

Report: New Orleans Resilient Despite Crises


Study finds New Orleans richer after Katrina

Wringing Art Out of Rubble

Article in today's NYTabout Detroit and artistic climate.

Lower Ninth Community Gardens

Villere (yep!) Urban Farm: site is down right now...

Lowernine.org also has some information