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.
Putting Parking into Reverse
Professor’s Theories Influence Cities to Reconsider Pervasive Free Parking
Transportation Planning Warms Up to Climate Change
Strategies Sweeping and Small
Being Formed to Face Global Emergency
Seirra Magazine: Explore a Wild Place
And yet, beneath peaks that top 20,000 feet and where “bagging a fourteener” often just means that you got out of bed in the morning, the Salar de Uyuni presents an improbable 4,000-square-mile salt plain.
Breaking Down the Big Box
https://www.planetizen.com/node/35473 I originally read Big Box Swindle out of curiosity and latent disgust. I review it out of moral obligation. Author Stacy Mitchell takes aim at Walmart (neè Wal-Mart) and its fellow mega-retailers, whose transgressions …
Out Of The Enclave: Latinos Adapt, And Adapt To, The American City
Planning strategies geared towards auto-oriented cities, detached houses, and scarce public space has nonetheless given rise to a sometimes awkward and sometimes elegant relationship between Latinos and American cities, in which streetcorner entrepreneurship is but one example of Latinos’ efforts to make a home in someone else’s environment.
Good Green Reads
Sierra asked leading professors to describe essential environmental books–and why they love them.
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
China Redefines Big
Book review of The Concrete Dragon: China’s Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World.
Small Town Apocalyptic Values
In World Made by Hand, James Howard Kunstler, infamous land-use curmudgeon and caustic hero of the New Urbanist set, presages this new era with a new subgenre: he has written perhaps the world’s first work of apocalyptic utopianism.
An Underground Movement Forms in L.A.
After over a decade of dormancy and a litany of mishaps, civic leaders are trying to get Los Angeles’ famously chaotic public transportation scheme in order, and a focal point of these efforts is the extension of the subway to the Westside, a project whose prospects have, over the past 35 years, wavered between inevitable and unthinkable.
An Underground Movement Forms in L.A.
Supporters See a Window of Opportunity for Subway Extension
Big Thoughts for a New Era
Review of The Endless City
A Local Revival: Authenticity and Artistry Reign at California Tile and Pottery Works
As the latest incarnation of California tile, CPTW creates everything from replacement tiles for tiny Craftsman bathrooms to vast schemes for clients such as the MGM Grand Hotel, the House of Blues, and the Camarillo Library, to unique murals and other details for high-end Spanish Revival estates.
Black-Tie Optional: ‘Stepsister’ Cities Flourish in the Shadows
Stepsister cities are too small to be center cities but–unlike office-oriented edge cities or hypertrophic bedroom communities such as Mesa, Ariz., or Aurora, Colo.–they still lay claim to distinct local economies, urban character, and even urban sub-regions of their own.
Building Cities in the Virtual World
And although planning’s ultimate goals will always reside in the real world, planners are harnessing this new virtual world in a variety of innovative ways.
Island Fever
Americans thrive in Puerto Rico’s men’s pro volleyball league.