Viewers installed throughout downtown Long Beach gives visitors a glimpse into the city's past.
Long Beach-based nonprofit We Are the Next and the Downtown Long Beach Alliance (DLBA) launches the “Step Back” placemaking project allowing passersbys to look into bright green viewers to see what their exact location looked like at a different point in time.
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Long Beach, New York pledges $600K for pedestrian safety
The city will use $500,000 in community block development grant funding to improve pedestrian infrastructure.
California presses forward on offshore wind
The state is taking steps to prepare its grid and port infrastructure for offshore wind projects despite the federal government's pushback on the technology.
Long Beach City College Lets Unhoused Students Sleep in Parking Lot
Almost half of U.S. college students face housing insecurity, and some schools are stepping up to offer stopgap solutions to the crisis.
Planetizen Federal Action Tracker
A weekly monitor of how Trump’s orders and actions are impacting planners and planning in America.
California plans to bury El Niño’s downpour
If the state plays its cards right, it may be able to store a billion acre-feet of El Niño’s water in aquifers.
Desperate measures: Advocates weigh draining Lake Powell to fill Colorado River
Draining the reservoir could reduce evaporation losses by a couple hundred thousand acre-feet.
In Texas, data centers are swallowing promised parkland
Residents who moved to Taylor, Texas for a rural community now have to contend with three data centers in their backyard.
How a Chicago-sized wind farm beat the odds and powered on
The project spanned five presidential administrations and a standoff with a U.S. military base.
MTA gives itself 30 days to transform pit into basketball court
The site has been under construction since 2022; the city originally estimated it would finish the court in 2024.
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.
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