As California cities agonize over how to house everyone, they are missing out on a typology with countless reasons to recommend it.
Trump to Cities: You’re Dead to Me
Donald Trump invokes the darkest days of urban decay and crime to appeal to his base. The facts speak to an urban triumph that has led to greater national prosperity and higher standards of living for tens of millions of Americans.
Planners in an Age of Globalization
CP&DR’s Josh Stephens caught up with Khanna at the Milken Institute Global Conference to talk about how city form – and the people who guide it – in California and elsewhere can contribute to these global connections.
“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.
Renters vs. Tenants: A Distinction with a Difference
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.
OpEd: Expo Line
Why Westsiders needs to stop worrying and learn how to love the train.
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.
What If Houston Fell in Love With Planning
Houston’s expansion is going in two directions at once. While development on the suburban fringe continues, there is intense focus on the urban core.
Jane Jacobs: 100 and Timeless as Ever
This is not your grandmother’s city. But it may yet be.
Insight into New University of California Application Essays (Part I)
If these prompts inspire more candid, creative answers, then UC might be on to something.
Intellectual Tourism, Near and Far: Review of ‘The Geography of Genius’
Organized chronologically, each chapter travels to a different city and investigates a different type of genius, spanning some 3,000 years. There’s a fun, parlor-game quality to anticipation, both of what city will come next and of what might qualify as “genius” for Weiner.
California Needs ‘Minimum Housing’ to Go Along with Minimum Wage
Minimum wage increases don’t mean much if housing supply does not increase.
New Faces in Long Beach
Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio rethinks a neglected Long Beach corner.
Book Review: From Steel to Slots
Chloe E. Taft explores the transition of Bethlehem, Pa., from Rust Belt company town to gambling mecca.
Fetishizing Families: Review of ‘The Human City’
Kotkin has long been a contrarian and critic of contemporary planning — sometimes a perceptive and welcome one, especially when urbanists, myself included, have gotten too cute or too smug. “The Human City” is probably his most comprehensive critique and surely his most off-putting.
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.