For all their popularity, setbacks have little basis in engineering or architecture. They are simply regulatory whims.

Among the grandiose promises, half-truths, and outright whoppers that sponsors of Measure S proffered, one of the most consistent messages concerned the depravity of real estate developers.

Deportation is — to say the least — the most perverse way to solve a housing crisis.

Nasty as it sounds, Green Acres ‘Farm’ in Kern County is an apt symbol of the symbiosis between rural and urban areas.

This year, while NIMBY’s were tittering about LULU’s, the “drill baby drill” crowd was marshaling its forces.

If Donald Trump threatens to pull the nation back into the past, I suggest that California remains — as ever — its future.

LAX is always under construction or renovation –in sometimes valiant, sometimes halfhearted, usually halting attempts to spruce up L.A.’s “nine terminals linked by a traffic jam.” It’s one traffic jam that may finally end.

As California cities agonize over how to house everyone, they are missing out on a typology with countless reasons to recommend it.

I think of renters expansively, as more than just parties who signed a piece of paper. Renters are demographic group, and an enormous one at that.

Minimum wage increases don’t mean much if housing supply does not increase.

urking behind every data point and every policy are forces like curiosity, relationships, open-ness, diversity, civic self-image, and values. These factors are often disregarded by short-sighted wonks and bureaucrats not because they’re not crucial but because they aren’t easily quantified.