California
California's Economic Development Support MIA
Since the state dismantled its economic development agency, its piecemeal efforts compare poorly to other states' coordinated strategies, as shown in the state's poor showing at the biotech industry's largest trade show.
California Plans To Cut Greenhouse Gases
California's governor and legislative leaders are backing a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions 25% by 2020.
Car-Free Development Proposal Seeks Supporters
A development of 1,000 homes designed for car-free living has been proposed for a 30-acre site in Hayward, California.
Immigration Debate Goes Local
Small cities, like Costa Mesa in Southern California, have taken stands on immigration policy that cause greater division among locals, according to columnist Michael Hiltzik.
Groundwater Reuse Reduces Need For Imports
In Southern California, Ventura County has begun a Groundwater Enhancement and Treatment Program to increase its supply of local, affordable water.
Is Street Cleaning A Scam?
Paul Thornton decided to stake out his block to see what actually happens during the two-hour window when street parking is not allowed so the city can clean the streets.
San Francisco To Study How To Implement Congestion Pricing
San Francisco has received a federal grant of over $1 million to study how to implement congestion pricing. The city plans to charge drivers to enter the most congested part of the city, as London does.
San Francisco's Unofficial Market-Rate Housing Moratorium
A recent appeal of a Planning Department project approval has forced developers to examine the cumulative impact of all market-rate housing on the city's eastern neighborhoods.
'Shoupistas' Take On Downtown L.A.'s Parking Dilemma
Trying to find parking in Downtown Los Angeles is going from difficult to near-impossible as ever more surface lots are converted to housing. The Downtown News offers the first in a three-part series.
Los Angeles Debates The Color Of Transit
Los Angelenos cannot agree on what to call different lines of their city's growing Metro transit system.
Bay Area Brain Drain
The Bay Area Council has published "The Innovation Economy: Protecting the Talent Advantage" that portrays a stark future for the area, largely resulting from the "unaffordability" (second only to NYC) of the nine-county northern California region.
Undoing Damage To The L.A. River
The Los Angeles River can be considered either the most neglected or the most scrutinized and engineered waterway in the nation. Long entombed in concrete, the river is gaining a new lease on life thanks to a master plan process that seeks to reinvent the resource.
Where's The Treasure On SF's Treasure Island?
The jewels in a new proposal for San Francisco's Treasure Island remain hidden, writes urban design critic Morris Newman.
Base Reuse Can Get Tricky
Lennar, one of the nation's largest homebuilders, which recently purchased its fifth closed military base site in California, has met with opposition from many angles.
Leimert Park: L.A.'s Center Of Black Culture
The vibrant, central Los Angeles neighborhood -- which has been referred to as "the black Greenwich Village" -- is growing in popularity.
California Mired In Its Own Levee Crisis
Officials, in a stalemate, struggle to find money for repairs - despite rising warnings of failing levees.
Los Angeles Housing Department's Ambitious Agenda
The Los Angeles Housing Department and its director, Mercedes Marquez, take a thorough, systematic approach to protecting renters and helping find and develop properties for workforce housing.
L.A. Housing Speculators Moving Out
Housing peculators are taking their profits from Southern California and investing in hotter markets in Las Vegas and Arizona.
How Not To Rebuild California's Infrastructure
Three months ago Gov. Schwarzenegger announced a landmark $222 billion plan to invest in California's infrastructure. Yet the state legislature has dealt a blow to crumbling bridges and congested freeways by failing to agree on a bond measure to fund it.
Own Your Own Riverfront Town (Again)
Four years after becoming the first town to be sold on EBay, the 83-acre Bridgeville, California, population 24, is up for sale again, this time for $1.75 million. [Thanks to Kelly Koldus for the correction.]
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
