For whatever reason, the Journal really has it cut out for California, because Kotkin’s piece—which isn’t actually an op-ed but rather a sycophantic quasi-interview by Allysia Finley—levies similar criticisms of California’s land use policies, but with some even more strained logic and offensive biases.
50 Years Later, Jacobs Still Leads a Sorority of Dissent
There must have been something in the water affecting women in the early 1960s, and it wasn’t just DDT.
Deconstructing A Tea Party Muse
For some lucky candidates, tomorrow’s election will have a storybook ending. Unfortunately for anyone who understands architecture, planning, and land use, that storybook will, in many cases, turn out to be The Fountainhead.
You Can’t Spell Subsidy Without B-U-S
A certain radical fringe contends that the benefits of free transit — that is, transit with a 100 percent subsidy (a la schools) — would pay for itself many times over. That might sound a little nuts, except that it’s hard to define a substantive difference between the argument in favor of fare-free transit and that in favor of toll-free roads.
Shoup Shows Cities How to “Just Say No” to Parking
Cities that have no money for infrastructure investments, are crushed by byzantine planning codes, or are otherwise skittish about upsetting the status quo now have no excuse not to consider parking reform.
Subway Extension Would Make More than a Token Difference for L.A.
If I’m guilty of anything, it’s hometown pride, except without the real town. The subway might change that. I
Light Rail Pits Planning Against Parenthood
The latest country heard from to oppose or otherwise gum up the Expo Line are the concerned parents and educators of L.A.’s Dorsey High School, past which the line would run.
A Down-to-Earth 9/11 Memorial
one of us intended to ignore Bolourchi’s memory or deny the enormity of 9/11. We who braced ourselves to speak against the proposal did not, however, wish to limit our support to the memory of a single soul when sadness still fell all around the nation.