A coalition of developers, public officials, and planners has now converged on the barren sidewalks of Century City to see if contemporary planning principles can commingle with modernism.
Transportation Planning Warms Up to Climate Change
America’s 200 million drivers and their 10 trillion annual vehicle miles traveled pose possibly the greatest collective action problem in human history. Transportation thus may be the great untapped resource—the Saudi Arabia of climate change mitigation.
The City as Factory
Perhaps the only urban planner ever to conduct fieldwork in stilettos, Currid slips past velvet ropes to argue in The Warhol Economy that New York City’s bounty resides not in the office tower but rather in the street, where art and creativity propel the city’s economy and distinguish it from the overgrown office parks that pass for American cities in the postindustrial age.
Building Better: Art or Eco?
Some architects worry that the flood of announcements of buildings earning acclaim from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program can detract from a building’s aesthetic merits and even devolve into a symbol of easy self-congratulation.
Women’s volleyball sweeps Ivies in ‘magical’ year
When the Tigers beat Brown Nov. 9 to improve their league record to 12–0, they rendered moot the league’s remaining six matches. The win clinched Princeton’s first outright league title since 2000 and earned the Tigers a berth in the NCAA tournament.
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.
Modernism In Fragments
Nathan Glazer’s From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City reveals how this influential social movement’s good intentions shaped the look of the 20th century. Anyone born in the second half of …
Reading, Writing, And Planning: Urbanism In High School
If American cities are to heal themselves, and if the planning profession wants to attract the brightest students from the widest possible talent pool, urban planning must find its way into the high school curriculum.
Survival of the Fittest
Sacrifice and perseverance are part of the program for players on the AVP tour.
Revitalized: USC Women’s Volleyball 2006
The cover of last year’s USC women’s volleyball media guide features three players posing in hard hats against a backdrop of rebar and concrete pilings. And rebuild they did.
Debunking, and Creating, Myths of Sprawl
At each turn, Bruegmann accepts that the current American landscape is more than all right, and argues that Americans should have chosen sprawl because sprawl is good and that no movement towards density, no matter how fervent, should obscure suburbia’s virtues.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak Champions Smart Growth, True Regional Cooperation in Twin Cities
TPR was pleased to speak with Mayor Rybak about his success in the Twin Cities region, whose goals and challenges are not so different from those of Los Angeles.
Remembering better days: The Campus Club of old
I suspect that few current students consider Campus a great loss; death comes quietly on the Street, with a few souls sitting by lamplight while parties down the block swing into full. Yet, Campus’ legacy should not depend on only the three years of memories held by current Princeton students.
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.
Literary Taxonomy and the Strange Case of Journalism
High school does not know what to do with journalism.
‘SportsCenter’ on a $5 budget
Malibu is becoming a city of champions, and if a team of broadcast journalism students get their way, everyone in town will soon know about it.
Malibu High School Top Ranked Nationally
According to a recent listing of America’s “top ranked high schools” in Newsweek magazine — though it swims with tens of thousands of other public high schools, in a pond as enormous as the United States itself — Malibu High School is one very big Shark.
Prioritized budget items head to council
The City Council Administration and Finance Subcommittee assigned priorities to an array of potential budget items proposed by commissions, community groups and individual citizens at its annual budget priorities meeting this month.