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Dingbats and "Scarchitecture"
Submitted by Tim Halbur on Wed, 02/12/2014 - 4:29pmThe Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design is in the throes of Kickstarting a book they're calling Dingbat 2.0. For those who don't know, the dingbat is a housing type that proliferated in the Western U.S. in the 50s and 60s, driven primarily by increased parking requirements. As you ca... read more »
Is Los Angeles Too Big?
Submitted by Tim Halbur on Mon, 11/11/2013 - 3:34pmThat's the question Colin Marshall, host of the Notebook on Cities & Culture Podcast, lobbed my way in a live recording this weekend at the New Urbanism Film Festival. At the risk of getting too simplistic, I think the answer is yes.
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yet another way to look at density
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 12/13/2012 - 10:20amSome commentators note that the Los Angeles metropolitan area has more people per square mile than other regions, and use this alleged fact as an argument why density doesn't affect a region's level of car dependency. One region this argument is silly is that Los Angeles density is quite diffe... read more »
A Word on the Model Design Manual for Living Streets from Ryan Snyder
Submitted by mikejersha on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 3:24pmThe following is a guest post from Ryan Snyder, the principal behind Ryan Snyder Associates and main organizer behind last year's meeting to create the plan for Los Angeles County's Model Design Manual for Living Streets. Since its release, the manual has been downloaded in the U.S., ... read more »
Live from the Left Coast: An Interview with Heather Smith and Norman Garrick
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 9:03amA bevy of CNU-aligned minds gathered together in Los Angeles this week to develop a "master blueprint" for the streets of Los Angeles County. The meeting was led by CNU member Ryan Snyder, who gathered together 50 or so experts from around the country to help complete a Model Streets Manual.
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L.A. Times writes about Stefanos Polyzoides
Submitted by MattBerggren on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 3:19pmThe Los Angeles Times recently wrote an article about Stefanos Polyzoides and the founding of the Congress for the New Urbanism. The article discusses what New Urbanism is all about, what motivated Stefanos to co-found CNU, and all the work Stefanos has done. It's definitly worth a read.
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Trading places: As the affluent go downtown, the working poor are tripling up to buy homes in the 'burbs.
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 2:10pmBy By William Fulton L.A. Times
July 29, 2007
What's going on here? For a century, people in Southern California moved to the suburbs as they got richer, leaving the more "urban" parts of town to poor people. Now that pattern has reversed itself.Affluent people are leaving the suburbs to live in th... read more »