Los Angeles-based planner Max Podemski authors A Paradise of Small Houses, celebrating the history and future of working-class housing from row houses to triple-deckers to the dingbat.
In his new book, Josh Stephens plumbs the depths of California's good and bad -- and tries to find the reason why urban life there is so oddly compelling.
In Talk City, his collection of blogs from the Ventura City Council, Bill Fulton talks about the difference between talking and doing in politics -- and the emotional toll it all takes. >>read more
