California
CityLink: A Model For Rebuilding Inner Cities
An interview with CityLink Investment Corporation's CEO William Jones in which he discusses how the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego is being transformed and revitalized.
Getting Green Out Of Brownfields
California's Bay Area has been successful in returning brownfields to productive use.
Home Owners/Developers Overturn School Facilities Fee Assessment
An interview discussing the recent Superior Court decision claiming that LAUSD failed to meet lawful requirements in applying Alternative School Facilities Fees.
California Abandons Growth Legislation
California's legislative attempt to focus growth through legislation is abandoned.
Infrastructure Fee Shortfall Plagues Modesto's Village
An infrastructure fee shortfall for an 1,840-acre project in a Central California Valley city could reach into the tens of millions of dollars.
Trading Off Housing For 'Big-Box' Development
A former city manager and current real estate developer discusses the development trade-offs California cities face stemming from Prop. 13.
Sacramento Takes On Snout Houses
Sacramento planners, aiming for "neighborly city streets" propose limiting houses with protruding garages.
The Tale Of Two Oakland Communities
The San Francisco Chronicle examines the challenges facing two communities in Oakland, CA as they try to improve.
L.A.'s 'Bicycle Freeway'
Despite challenges, a bikeway along the Los Angeles river across the entire City of Los Angeles, might actually happen.
The Divine Developer
Cardinal Roger Mahoney discusses the design and planning behind the most expensive Catholic Cathedral in the U.S.
Builders Scream Foul
The National Association of Home Builders says planners are overreaching in their interpretation.
Embrace The Farmer, Agriculture Will Prevent Sprawl
Now, 30 years later, the cry of Sonoma Valley, CA has changed: "Save us from agriculture."
Inferno Destroys Nearly-complete Controversial Development
An eight-alarm fire decimates San Jose's upscale, controversial and almost-finished $500 million Santana Row.
Advertising City
The high-profile ad agency TBWA/Chiat/Day's new offices in Los Angeles are a virtual and self-contained 'advertising city'.
Energy From Algae: Green Power Breakthrough?
A California company is trying to be the first to commercialize the production of hydrogen from algae.
The Perfect Village That Keeps Failing
Westwood Village in West Los Angeles is adjacent to UCLA and the city's most affluent neighborhoods. Yet it can't seem to succeed. Why?
A New National Seashore?
The Bush Administration backs away from a federal plan to acquire and save the largest remnant of non-urbanized coast in Southern California.
Infectous Greed Is Ruining Our Neighborhoods
Unchecked "mansionization" of established older neighborhoods is the result of "me-first, I've got mine" attitudes by both builders and the cities that encourage them.
Golf Carts: California's Latest Transit Trend
The new trend in California is a redesigned golf cart that can operate on the roads at 25 m.p.h. It's the perfect alternative for short trips
LA's Downtown: A Tale Of Two Cities
Can the cultural corridor of Downtown LA's Bunker Hill coexist with the successful and gritty ethnic communities below it?
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
