Idealistic Planning Meets Real World In Fresno Project
Mathematicians often take delight in Cat’s Cradle, the age-old game of making string figures on one’s fingers. In the most familiar form of this game, one person starts out with a simple rectangle of...
View ArticleRemedial Urbanism: History, Apathy, Old Plan Stunt Westwood Village
Westwood Village sits in the middle of a rare constellation of commercial districts. To the east lie Prada, Spago and the extravagance of Beverly Hills. To the south, Century City offers a resplendent...
View ArticleForm-Based Codes Gain Popularity But Cannot Cure All
Amid budget shortfalls and a development drought, California cities and counties have stopped planning. But they haven’t stopped coding. Form-based code fever is still in full force throughout...
View ArticleQ&A: Robert Freilich Heralds Age Of Sustainable Planning
One of the country’s leading experts on land use law, attorney and UCLA professor Robert Freilich has tried cases and designed plans in hundreds of cities and witnessed the legal and conceptual...
View ArticleA Prescription for Prosperity: Let Cities Be Cities
In Triumph of the City, Ed Glaeser has written a love letter to his lifelong object of study, the global metropoles in which a majority of the world’s population now resides. read more
View ArticleQ&A: Uncertainty Reigns in New Wild West
Josh Stephens As inscrutable as public policy may be sometimes, academics and professionals alike sometimes like to believe that they have all the answers. Sometimes, though, an esteemed professor...
View ArticleSmart Growth Literature Hits a Cul-du-Sac
Josh Stephens Where is Robert Bruegemann when you need him?A few years back, Bruegmann wrote Sprawl: A Compact History, an exaltation of low-density growth. It called for cities to double-down on all...
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