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Today's News - August 20, 2004

We lose a preservationist who inspired a movement. -- RFP issued today for The Drawing Center at WTC site (September 1 deadline!). -- A new book blames TV and sprawl for urban ills. -- "Supersized" developments threaten Melbourne's planning blueprint. -- A new initiative to beautify Cairo. -- The war against ugly buildings spreads to Zambia. -- A Modernist icon in Michigan threatened; another bites the dust in Scotland. -- A symposium to explore how Pittsburgh reinvented itself. -- Rethinking building codes in hurricane-battered Florida. -- The architectural treasure trove of Columbus, Indiana. -- A low-budget church design that sparkles. -- Slowly but surely a children's museum takes shape in Michigan. -- A post-capitalist view of cities: in a classless society, architects would be "remunerated for effort and sacrifice…architectural innovation would not be biased…Nor would there be a profit motive, inherent in the private property of capitalism, which sacrifices the quality of our built environment…" (some good ideas, but are we the only ones who find it just a bit scary?). -- Eye-popping Art Deco show comes to Boston.