Judy Chang

Judy is a New York City planner and former Planetizen student intern and contributor.

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Judy Chang is a planner for the New York City Department of Transportation. Previously, she interned at Planetizen after graduating from UC Irvine in 2008, where she studied Psychology and Urban and Regional Planning. She continued contributing news stories to Planetizen while earning a Master's in Urban Planning from Columbia University GSAPP, which she obtained in 2012.

To Make Planning Relevant, Turn to Open-Source Methods

Urban planning is falling into obsolescence, according to this piece, but employing old bottom-up techniques that value input from a variety of sources will make it relevant again.

Battle Brews Over "Significant" Hotel's Fate

Now that Los Angeles' Century Plaza Hotel has been listed as one of the nation's most endangered historic places, preservationists argue the irony behind developers' plans to demolish the building to "green" the area.

Rybczynski: People, not Architects, Make Icons

According to architect critic Witold Rybczynski, most iconic architecture never intended to be, and it should stay that way.

The Art of Balancing Retail

Diversity is important to neighborhood commercial areas, but getting the right balance of retail and restaurants without disincentivizing the former is not so simple.

Setting the Record Straight on SF Design

This piece offers seven misconceptions about architecture in San Francisco. The first: "This is a liberal city where anything goes."