The Los Angeles Times outlines the challenges that will be faced by a new Planning Director, and provides a brief history of planning in the city.
The search for a planning director "has prompted repeated calls for a director who will be the urban planning equivalent of Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton, outspoken and strong enough to stand up to a developer or neighborhood activist unwilling to do what's best for the city.
...One irony of Los Angeles is that its original mass-transit system contributed to its sprawl. By the 1920s, L.A. was at the center of a 1,100-mile-plus network of trolley lines that allowed area residents to travel as far as Orange County."
Thanks to Chris Steins
Read the full story: Forging the Future of L.A.
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The state-sanctioned urbicide of Austin
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Nation's most wind-powered state turns to coal as data centers increase energy demand
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Brightline West’s future may rely on $6 billion federal loan
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FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
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Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
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Greater Baltimore Committee
Eagle County Government
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
Journal of the American Planning Association