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New wetlands park made possible by environmental justice lawsuit

February 27, 2012 by Kaid Benfield
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  A densely packed, distressed neighborhood in South Los Angeles has a new, nine-acre park that will include a 4.5-acre wetland, filtering stormwater while bringing much-needed green space into a community historically plagued by nearby industrial facilities.  Even better, the park replaces a former brownfield, a paved bus and... [read more]

Grand Theft Urbanism

November 15, 2011 by Yuri Artibise
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The new edition of the Grand Theft Auto series will feature a fictionalized LA. The characterization includes its idiosyncratic planning landscape, including avaricious developers, activist NIMBYs, and an ambitious ‘starchitect.’ Keep an eye out for the downtown development billboards. [read more]

LA 'Carmageddon' Op-Ed:  In lieu of practical public transit, people resort to flying

July 16, 2011 by Next American City
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Image Credit: by Pranav Bhatt

 The city of Los Angeles is bracing for disaster. More paralyzing than an earthquake, more immobilizing than a hurricane, the city is preparing for the worst transportation calamity imaginable: construction on the 405. Route 405 links the northern and southern parts of the greater Los Angeles metro region, and this weekend’s... [read more]

Is Los Angeles a city?

May 24, 2011 by Geoff Manaugh
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Credit: Iwan Baan

Last autumn, I had the pleasure of speaking with architects Michael Maltzan and Jessica Varner for the new book No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond. That conversation was then included in the book itself, alongside conversations about the city with such artists, architects, and writers as... [read more]

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Can LEED coexist with other green building standards?

April 3, 2011 by Chris Cheatham
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Once upon a time, I co-presented "The Green Building Legal Apocalypse: Why Cities Should Stop Mandating LEED." During the presentation, I argued that cities using LEED as a mandatory building code were setting themselves up for problems down the road. It should be no surprise, then, that I am excited about the plethora of green building... [read more]

America Fast Forward: Innovating Transportation

March 31, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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Los Angeles is planning a 4-mile extension of the Metro Orange Line, complete with bikeways and pedestrian paths. Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa visited Washington, D.C. yesterday to garner support for a national expansion of his 30/10 transportation initiative, called ... [read more]

On City Prosperity

December 20, 2010 by Chris Bradford
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I don't buy the theory that cities are prosperous because they are cool.  It's a pretty silly idea that confuses cause and effect -- rich cities are rich because they are innovative; their innovative residents tend to be innovative culturally as well; cultural innovation makes cool. Bill Fulton at Newgeography doesn't buy the "... [read more]

Innovative East LA high school features urban planning and community engagement

November 18, 2010 by Kaid Benfield
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A group of Los Angeles teachers just started their own pilot school organized around the unlikely theme of urban planning and design, writes Nate Berg in Metropolis.  In particular: “The East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy of Urban Planning and Design held its first classes in September on the crisp new campus of Esteban Torres... [read more]

Are People Really Fleeing Shrinking Cities?

November 14, 2010 by Aaron Renn
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When people think of Rust Belt or other regions that are either shrinking or growing extremely slowly, what often comes to mind is the thought of rats fleeing a sinking ship. The concern over “brain drain” reinforces this exact type of narrative. And when you look at the net migration figures from the Census Bureau, it’s easy find the... [read more]

Going Green: LA Prepping to be Clean Tech Leader

April 28, 2010 by Amadie Hart
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This post was written for The Ground Floor by Robert Krueger, communications associate at the Urban Land Institute. What are the challenges and opportunities–physical, social and economic–involved in redeveloping existing industrial infrastructure so that it is can attract clean technology industries in the 21st century? That is exactly... [read more]

LA’s Eco-Village: a venture in intentional community and sustainability

April 27, 2010 by Kaid Benfield
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  Los Angeles’s Eco-Village is a two-block, 11-acre community dedicated to intentional,  ‘whole-systems’ sustainable living in  the heart of the city.  Its area eccompasses about 500 residents in the city’s East Hollywood and Koreatown special planning districts.    From what one can see on the... [read more]

Dispensing greenaids to the L.A. River and beyond

April 2, 2010 by Georgia Silvera Seamans
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  Greenaid "seedbomb dispensary" along the L.A. River, photo courtesy of David Fletcher, Fletcher Studios David Fletcher, principal at Fletcher Studio, teamed up with Daniel Phillips and Kim Karlsrud of Common Studio to design a "seedbomb dispensary" for L.A. River re-vegetation. The dispensary or Greenaid was designed as an... [read more]