In Chevron’s absence, California can pursue sustainability goals–locally and globally–even more enthusiastically. It can speed the adoption of electric vehicles and renewable energy (which, on a good day, sometimes accounts for more than 100% of the state’s energy).
Populations change even if they don’t grow. That’s why California needs more housing even though the population is stagnant
Nevada officials want Las Vegas to expand even further, by opening federal land to development. As too many places in California illustrate, that’s a recipe for sprawl, but not for a better city
Using a clever combination of local and state housing incentives, Costco is getting into the housing business in South Los Angeles
For nearly as long as I’ve followed planning and transportation, the running joke, recited in conference sessions and at happy hours, has been that self-driving cars are at least five years away — and always will be.
Unfortunately for everyone involved, six California cities are on a recently published list of the “18 Fastest-Declining Cities in the U.S.”
A roundup of highlights from California Planning & Development Report, InTransition, CommonEdge, and more in 2023.
The Sphere is technologically astonishing, but it’s not great for placemaking
Orange County has an aversion to density. That’s an opportunity for some intrepid city.
Whether you’re Cambridge or Canada or anyplace in between, urban economics will always involve combinations of alchemy, soothsaying, and dead reckoning.
A “new city” near the Bay Area has caught the popular imagination, for better or worse. What of “regular” planning?
A roundtable with planners from California’s Central Valley, in advance of the Cal APA conference in Fresno
A well intentioned ballot measure to raise affordable housing funds from big-dollar real estate transfers could kill the housing Los Angeles needs most.
A restaurant critic wonders if they deserve blame for furthering gentrification in San Francisco. It’s an interesting, and utterly counterproductive, question.
Los Angeles needs every type of housing. Mayor Karen Bass doesn’t know that yet.
2022 was an unusually action-packed year in California planning
New public transit lines, extensions, and major upgrades have been opening up all over California lately. CP&DR reviews the impacts of these transformative, and not-so-transformative, projects.