California
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.
Housing Shortages And Smart Growth In Ventura County
Ventura County's looming houding shortage forces electeds to grapple with restrictive laws and state pressure.
California Cities And The Budget Agreement
This years state budget relys on borrowing, rollovers, and city revenue to decrease the deficit. The cities have had enough.
A Story Of A Place: Transforming America's Cities
Placemaking is the art of architecture connecting spaces to communities.
Americans Still Dreaming About California
Despite recent troubles leading up to a historic gubernatorial recall, a new poll shows most Americans would like to live in California.
Los Angeles Is Really A Railroad Town
This is the golden age for rail in Southern Califrnia. However, as rail use continues to grow, it is causing strains.
Can Transit Save Chinatown?
Los Angeles' Chinatown is seeing a dramatic surge in activity with the opening of the new Gold Line. Community-based revitalization efforts are planned.
Smart Growth, Dumb Choice
Joel Schwartz and Wendell Cox argue that "Smart Growth" is a dumb choice unless you want higher housing prices and increased traffic congestion.
Santa Barbara: A County Divided By Housing
California's pricey Santa Barbara county provides a case study of how the need for new housing need is facing NIMBYism from wealthier residents who don't want more growth.
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
