California
Adapting Habitat For Humanity To The Urban Environment
Habitat for Humanity takes its expertise in creating builder-owners in suburban settings to Los Angeles, which desperately needs affordable housing. The Planning Report interviews CEO Erin Rank.
What Would You Do With $100 Billion To Improve Transit?
As part of a series of opinions about traffic and transit, The Los Angeles Times gives one transit advocate the fantasy situation of having $100 billion to spend on rail, buses, and a host of other transportation improvements.
Old Town Pasadena Is a Victim of Its Own Smart Growth Success
Plans for condominiums and senior housing in downtown Pasadena may create traffic and aesthetic problems.
L.A. River Restoration Planning Gets Hands On
A unique gallery exhibition lets visitors build 3D plans for the future of the L.A. River out of building blocks and other small household items. Those involved say that while the work may be child's play, the ideas behind them certainly aren't.
L.A. Looking At 'Inland Port' Idea
With high amounts of truck traffic congesting freeways near the county's busy ports, County officials in L.A. are considering creating an 'inland port', where goods travel from the port by rail to be picked up by trucks far from the port complex.
Is Chicago The New 'Green' American City?
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose city has typically been recognized for its environmental leadership, recently visited Chicago to observe the pioneering work of Mayor Daley in implementing green building principles and gather new ideas.
Rezoning L.A.'s Industrial Bones
Developers want to transform downtown L.A.'s warehouses, factories, and grimy commercial buildings to accommodate live-work spaces. Planners and activists want to stay the course -- they say needed jobs are at stake.
Controversial Sierra Nevada Foothill Freeway Revisited
Resurrection of a 1959 plan to construct a freeway along the Sierra Nevada foothills in California's Central Valley is in the works.
Tejon Ranch: California's New 270,000 Acre Master-Planned Community
On a ranch the size of Rhode Island will live 70,000 citizens of California's new town: Centennial.
Downtown Development Rights For Sale In L.A.
Outside experts believe the City of Los Angeles is making a density mistake by selling downtown development rights.
Subsidizing Upper Middle Class Housing
With median housing prices of more than $1 million, the city of Santa Barbara, California, is looking for ways to retain its diminishing middle-class. The plan is to subsidize middle-income housing for residents making up to $177,000.
Is Downtown Renewal A 'Fool's Errand'?
The Economist reports on how San Jose, CA and Las Vegas, NV, have tried -- and failed -- to revive their downtowns.
Ground Zero For The Sub-Prime Mortgage Meltdown
In Perris, California, a bedroom community in the outer orbit of Los Angeles, 1 out of every 53 homes is in default.
The Quest For Colored Bike Lane Pavement
Bicycle advocates in San Francisco want the city to pave bike lanes with colored pavement, but so far the city has resisted the plan, citing a lack of standards.
Central California Cities Team To Address Growth
With Census figures predicting a doubling in the population by 2030, the Central California county of San Joaquin has begun an eight-city planning process to help shape the region's future.
How Free Wi-Fi Could Change The City
Will Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's plan to provide free wireless access really benefit Los Angeles?
Google's Unparalleled Transit Network
Free shuttle service is intended to attract and retain the Bay Area's top talent.
Planting The Seeds For Green Roofs
A plant company owner in San Diego, California, is hoping his new vegetated roof will help the concept catch on with others in the region.
Wal-Mart Withdraws Supercenter Plans
Wal-Mart has dropped plans to build a "supercenter" store in the East Bay city of Livermore, which has joined many other Northern California cities that have used local powers to prevent the retailer from moving in.
San Diego Neighborhood Wrestles With Student Housing
Entrepreneurial students-turned-developers are turning houses into dorms around San Diego State University to meet the growing demand for affordable housing, but neighbors want the city to crackdown on the practice.
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.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
