“YIMBY” Movement Heats Up in Boulder
A loose affiliation of activists fed up with what they consider undue political influence of NIMBYs, the YIMBY movement has cropped up all over America.
Rent Control Gains Traction Amid Housing Crisis in Bay Area
Over the past year, cities have again turned to what is, in many ways, the tool of last resort to preserve affordable housing.
Why Winning Park Design Is a Win for Los Angeles
If all goes according to plan, by 2020, Los Angeles’ Pershing Square will be flattened, scraped clean and reintroduced to a public that has long crossed the street to avoid it.
Jane Jacobs: 100 and Timeless as Ever
This is not your grandmother’s city. But it may yet be.
New Faces in Long Beach
Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio rethinks a neglected Long Beach corner.
Columbus Bucks Trends, Grows Steadily
Smack in the buckle of the Rust Belt, Columbus, Ohio, has managed to avoid some of the hard times that have befallen its neighbors.
Life After Wartime
The VA retained the Los Angeles office of HOK to draft a preliminary master plan to optimize the use of all 388 acres, with a particular focus on serving homeless veterans.
Ballot Initiative Takes Aim at Planning in Los Angeles
The number of people who would likely vote in favor of the city’s current system of long-range planning and project approvals in the City of Los Angeles hovers around zero. But that is not exactly the question at hand.
Mobility Plan Nudges Los Angeles Towards New Transportation Modes
The City of Los Angeles has, finally, formulated an ambitious vision — some say too ambitious — to redefine nearly every facet of mobility in the city.
Flight Segments
LAX renovation gains momentum with Terminal 5.
How One City Will Change Its Entire Bus System Overnight
After three decades, Houston is revamping its entire bus network — more than 80 routes, 1,200 buses and a quarter-million daily passengers — literally overnight.
California City Moves Toward Innovation Zone for Marijuana
City officials believe it would be the country’s first-ever land use designation specifically meant to promote and regulate the production of marijuana and cannabis-related products.
L.A. Wants to Throw a Different Kind of World Party
Ambitiously called Los Angeles World’s Fair (LAWF) — no “proposal” or “candidate city” about it — the group is promoting what it describes as a new type of World’s Fair, one that is fitting not only for Los Angeles but also for the 21st century.
San Francisco Tries to Combat the Business Side of Gentrification
Campos has proposed a ballot initiative that, while it will not save every threatened legacy business, may buoy enough of them to prevent the city’s commercial landscape from being overrun by Starbucks and Chipotle.
L.A. Asks Makers to Stand Up and Be Counted
With over 350,000 manufacturing jobs, Los Angeles County has more than any other county in the U.S., and an attendant number of factories.
Los Angeles Metro Tackles First Mile, Last Mile Problem
The challenge Metro now faces – on a scale arguably larger than that of any other major city – is of getting riders to and from its trains and buses.
Cities Seize Chances to Avoid CEQA Review through Voter Initiatives
In the cities of Carson and Inglewood, competing sponsors of stadium proposals are employing, simultaneously, a newly legitimized tactic to exempt their projects from review under the California Environmental Quality Act.