The American Planning Association bestowed its highest academic award on to an article by two California-based researchers who seek to describe the elusive relationship between California's job centers and housing.
This week's APA conference is located across the street from the "happiest place on earth" -- with "place" in very ironic quotes. Here's what Disneyland, and Disney's latest "imagineering" efforts mean for planning today.
If you like books about cities, you'll want to tune in to CP&DR's special session on books at the California APA virtual conference on Monday Sept. 14 at 10:30. >>read more
Minneapolis recently abolished single-unit zoning citywide. Housing Advocate Anna Nelson, of Neighbors for More Neighbors, explains how California cities can do the same.
All the urban planners in the country are in Las Vegas this week, and it's clear they have a love/hate relationship with the place.
Vegas is kitschy and over the top, and at first glance it always looks like the least sustainable place on the planet. Vegas is acres of neon plastered across the front of 30-story casinos in the 100-degree desert – each casino more outlandishly upscale than the other – along with the occasional lake and 200-foot water fountain.