California
California Cities Must Reclaim Their Money
California's political system is broken. Local governments in California are handcuffed by Sacramento, and unable to develop their own tax structures and spending priorities.
San Francisco Can Lead The Nation In Using Solar Energy
San Francisco incorporates sustainable building practices, including pilot solar programs, in its own real estate but stymies the use of solar energy by residential and commercial property owners
Safer Urban Driving Through Confusion?
Experiments with traffic circles in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood has slowed traffic, but only because drivers are confused.
Can L.A.'s River Be Saved?
A collaboration of local government agencies outlines a 10-year plan to restore and clean up the Los Angeles river.
Goodbye Car, Hello Bus
In a car crazy culture, a planner decides to make the switch to transit.
Getting Business To Pay For Housing?
The City of Petaluma, CA is considering a workforce housing linkage fee on new commerical, industrial, and retail development in the city.
Shaping Growth In San Francisco
San Francisco's Transbay Area is destined to take advantage of promixity to the financial district, waterfront, and a new multi-modal transit terminal with high-density residential development.
Profile Of A New Town: Doe Mill, CA
Like most successful new urbanist developments, Doe Mill Neighborhood in Chico, Calif., is a jewel crafted by generalists.
Historic Preservation Vs. A New School
How will the Los Angeles School District convert one of city's most famous hotels into a school?
HOA's: California's First Level Of Government
In a sign of rebellion against homowner association boards, three new California bills would weaken the powers of HOAs.
HOT Lanes: A Win-Win Transportation Solution
Variable-priced toll lanes would make more effective use of existing carpool lanes and also help finance the infrastructure improvements California has failed to provide.
Opposition Causes Developers To Abandon Plan For New City
A conservation group seeks to buy the land on the border of Joshua Tree National Parkt to ensure that it will never be developed.
Sustainable Neighborhoods Through Community Based Policing
The Redlands, California Police department have created a new model for crime control: the police department also manages housing and recreation.
California State Budget's Impacts On Regional Mobility
MTA chairman Zev Yaroslavsky assesses how the state budget will affect Southern California's mass transit agenda.
Backlog Of Affordable Military Housing
A lack of affordable rents and homeownership opportunities is causing strain for more than 2000 military families in San Diego, CA
Check Out This Bike Library
Borrowing a successful idea from Europe, this town has a free volunteer-run "bike library."
State Treasurer On California Budget's Policy Implications
Treasurere Phil Angelides analyzes the budget, its impact on the capacity to accomodate the state's inevitable growth, and it's implications for California's long-term fiscal health.
Does Immigration Cause Sprawl?
A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies says that sprawl in California's Central Valley could be controlled by curtailing immigration.
California Recall's Infrastructure Set-Aside Sleeper
California's October 7 recall ballot will feature more than Gray, Cruz, and Arnold.
'Silhouetting' Proposed Development
Five Los Angeles cities that control development on the coastal peninsula require the use of 'silhouetting' to alert neighbors about proposed development.
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.
KFH Group Inc.
Greater Baltimore Committee
Eagle County Government
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
