Blogs

Chipotle is a place, more or less. But the loss of local restaurants is a problem for cities. >>read more

Nasty as it sounds, Green Acres 'Farm' in Kern County is an apt symbol of the symbiosis between rural and urban areas. >>read more

This year, while NIMBY's were tittering about LULU’s, the “drill baby drill” crowd was marshaling its forces. >>read more

Yesterday, McKinsey and Co. released A Tool Kit to Close California’s Housing Gap, which offers its take on California’s housing crisis. >>read more

As it becomes more urban, Los Angeles's Westside struggles with the transition. >>read more

With due appreciation to the organizers and sponsors of this week’s California APA conference, there’s been a lot of food to keep over 1,500 planners sustained and energized this week. >>read more

Santa Barbara embraces vehicle miles traveled metrics in attempt to solve challenge of jobs-housing imbalance. >>read more

Did Howard Jarvis really mean to force transit advocates to try to make everybody happy in order to get a two-thirds vote for Measure M? >>read more

As California cities agonize over how to house everyone, they are missing out on a typology with countless reasons to recommend it. Fundamentally, no typology so exquisitely balances the urban virtue of efficiency with the American virtue of individualism. >>read more

In his new book, Connectography, Parag Khanna insists that connectivity, not geography, is destiny. >>read more

Union leaders don't see that a green economy is much better for their unions than a pipeline. >>read more

Like 45 percent of other Californians and 52 percent of other Angelenos, I live in a home owned by a stranger. It’s not quite the American dream. Nationwide, 65 percent of households own the units they occupy. But it suits me fine. >>read more