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Today's News - November 7, 2003

Editor's note: ANN will be on the road Monday…the newsletter will return Tuesday, November 11.

Ground Zero memorial competition: and then there were eight. -- A (humorous) tweak at New Urbanism. -- Relaxing development rules IF the public is involved from the get-go (what a concept!). -- Experts at a housing conference link affordable housing and healthy communities to good schools (another great concept!). -- A princely shortlist for massive housing development in the U.K. -- A Myrtle Beach Marketplace with Misenerian (read Mediterranean - not Miesian) style. -- Paris eyes skyscrapers (mais non!). -- Plans for a new gateway to Edinburgh left swinging in the breeze. -- Strategies for survival. -- Philadelphia library designer (not design) competition "in the hope that the visuals would reveal how their brains work." -- University has lots of designers, but no building. -- Report from ASLA annual conference. -- Chicago identifies endangered sites. -- Big bucks planned for NYC schools, but trade council not happy. -- Sydney Opera House's crumbling interior has "all the charm of a provincial bingo hall" - and a great comeback story. -- Holocaust memorial in Berlin under construction, but not all are pleased.