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Top 25 LA County Environmental Firms
LA Business Journal's weekly list focuses on top environmental firms in Los Angeles County.
Sacramento -- An International City?
Downtown Sacramento's renaissance is nearing a critical mass, but can this sleepy town of 400,000 redefine itself as a an "international city?"
HUD selects ESRI to Develop GIS Standard
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to develop, install, and maintain an agencywide standard GIS platform.
Construction Slowdown Ahead
American Institute of Architects' Chief Economist discusses the outlook for the construction industry.
Where is California's Housing Money?
Critics say that little is being done to ensure that California's housing money is beingspent wisely.
Farmlands Turning To Junkyards
Los Angeles yard clippings used as mulch in Ventura County farms contain metal and plastic and are harming agriculture.
Housing Battle Brewing
SCAG asks state department to reduce housing estimates for Southern California, but state stands firm, setting the stage for a battle.
LA River Gets Funding Stream
Much-maligned Los Angeles River is expected to receive state funding and become a state parkway.
Silicon Valley Jobs Are Plentiful; Houses Are Not
A proposal from Cisco Systems to build a 6.6 million-square-foot campus for up to 20,000 workers in south San Jose has focused attention on the Silicon Valley’s housing shortage.
The Future of the Sierra Nevada
The largest timber company in California has adopted a clear-cutting strategy that threatens the future of the Sierra Nevada.
HUD Funding for New Building Technologies
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomoannounced grants totaling nearly $1.1 million for six industry projects that promise new orimproved energy-saving and homebuilding technologies within 18 months.
Museum Design: Masterpiece or Boxy Shed?
A design to replace the earthquake-weakened M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Parkfaces criticism from architects and grassroots organizations.
LAUSD Site Planning: The Good, Bad, Ugly
Stakeholders offer their two cents on plans for Los Angeles' Abasssador Hotel as a future LAUSD school site.
The New LA Charter: Are You Ready?
Among the changes: 15 neighborhood councils, five regional planning commissions. Is this "placebo government?"
Lawsuit Over Wood-burning Fireplace Ban
Palo Alto hit with a lawsuit by industry group over city's ban on wood-burning fireplaces.
Citywide Rezoning for Stanton
Stanton, CA., plans to rezone the entire city into a redevelopment zone.
Silicon Valley? Technology Needs Space
Joel Kotkin suggests that Silicon Valley's real estate is causing it's demise. Instead, technology is looking toward Dallas, Washington DC, and Southern California.
Downtown L.A. as a Destination Place
Get ready for Staples Phase 2 -- a billion dollar entertainment, retail, and hotel complex encircling the arena.
El Toro: CA's Most Bitter Land Use Controversy
Feature story in Planning Magazine chronicles history and planning or El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in the heart of Orange County.
Technology for Planning and Architecture
The AEC Systems show profiles new technologies for architecture, construction, planning; focus on tech tools for project management.
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
