California
Making Los Angeles Living Look Attractive
Developers try their hardest to find residents by offering often obscure amenities.
U.S.-Mexican Border: Biometrics' Impact On Transportation Flow
Adding even a few seconds more to inspection times at the U.S.-Mexican border could impact tourism and commerce. Are Biometrics the answer?
The Impact Of Gentrification On The Homeless?
The gentrification of downtown Los Angeles is beginning to impact the city's largest homeless community.
Yosemite to Get a Controversial Facelift
'Yosemite was made a national park in 1890, and since then it has struggled to find a balance between preservation and public access.'
It's Not About The Sprawl
Housing developments are not to blame for the problems of modern Southern California life
How Clean Is Clean Enough?
California is decades behind other states in formulating a comprehensive brownfields policy, stifling economic development efforts.
ESRI's Jack Dangermond Profiled
ESRI's famous but reclusive founder, Jack Dangermond, is profiled by his neighborhood newspaper.
Seaching for the City of Tomorrow
SF Chronicle's urban design writer visits a design school review and ponders over the future of the physical design of San Francisco.
Expensive Housing at the Expense of Basic Needs
A study on poverty in the San Francisco area shows that skyrocketing housing costs have kept residents from meeting basic household budgets.
Here Comes The Sun
City in California hopes to cut down on electricity bills and improve the environment with the largest solar projects of its kind on the West Coast.
A Wireless City
The largest wireless deployment in the nation promises to bring broadband Internet access to an entire city.
Schwarzenegger: Cut Billions For Transportation
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposes canceling state support for $5.4 billion worth of highway and transit projects.
Affordable Housing Costs More
As the economy is slumping, affordable housing cannot compete with market rates.
The Commute of Dreams
With a commute of only a few steps, some new Orange County residents will have it better than their Los Angeleno counterparts.
A License To Kill
A landowner gets a state permit to hunt the last male lion in the Santa Monica mountains.
Kayak Through Los Angeles?
A reporter journeys down the Los Angeles River by kayak.
The Suburban Mall: America's New Town Square?
Why is Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger giving major speeches at shopping malls?
Southern California's Disappearing Middle Class
Southern California's lingering grocery strike is about the very survival of Los Angeles' middle class, writes Harold Meyerson.
Los Angeles Releases Report On Wal-Mart
A report on Wal-Mart commissioned by the City of Los Angeles warns that Wal-Mart's Supercenters would harm the local economy.
How Maps Lie
We all know how you can lie with numbers. You can lie with maps much more effectively, as Jonathan Corum demonstrates with a widely-used map of California's recent gubernatorial election results.
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
