Toni Griffin, a featured panelist at the upcoming CEOs for Cities Urban Leaders Summit in Detroit November 8-9, is the focus of a Q&A in Architect. 

Toni spoke of the limits of government and the benefit of small scale projects to writer Fred Bernstein.  "Government can make some transformative…

This story keeps running so I finally have to comment.  It's the story that the Obama Administration is considering backing a plan to shrink deteriorating American cities by bulldozing entire neighborhoods and returning the land to nature. The idea, which originated in Flint, Mich. -- cratered by the auto…

From a compelling article by Bruce Fisher:

"In Buffalo, City Hall says it has a plan for vacant land, and that its plan doesn’t include turning vacant lots into farms. City Hall actively opposed land-banking legislation, and got Governor Paterson to veto a land-bank bill just last year.

Trend Central reports that land sharing is growing in Canada and on the U.S. West Coast.  Here's their report...