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July 17, 2023

Blast from the Past: In Bilbao, Spain with Frank Gehry: A TPR Exclusive Interview (1998)

TPR caught up with Gehry in Bilbao, Spain, the site of the new Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum, which has made an unprecedented international splash—both among patrons of the arts, who admire its space; and city boosters, who admire the power of a building to put a city like Bilbao on the map.

July 11, 2023

Insider Planning: NoHo Nightmare Reveals Pitfalls of LA's Housing Policies & Obsession with Density at Any Cost

The Planning Report is interested in—and shares this first-hand account—uncovering the failures in policy and governance that enabled and incentivized these crimes in its pursuit of housing density at any cost.

July 10, 2023

Zev Yaroslavsky’s Los Angeles: A Political Memoir-Excerpts

Zev’s new book, ‘Zev's Los Angeles: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power. A Political Memoir’, excerpted here with his permission, …” revisits the period in which Los Angeles”, as former LA Times’ Editor notes in his eloquent & recent book review, “became what we know today: big and complex, multiracial, exciting, divided and far deeper than what meets the eye.”

June 23, 2023

Patsaouras: Political Origins of LA's Transit Safety Challenges

Nick Patsaouras, who outlines the historic and political origins of LA Metro’s policing contracts in the 1990s and subsequent degradation of security on the system.

June 23, 2023

Coordinating Green Building Across the LA Region: MyGBCE 2023 Civic Power Panel Excerpt

At a recent US Green Building Council-LA event, Executive Director Ben Stapleton led a conversation with Marta Segura, Chief Heat Officer and Climate Emergency Mobilization Director for the City of LA; Rita Kampalath, Acting LA County Chief Sustainability Office; Sean Crumby, Director of Project Delivery and Sustainability for the City of Irvine; and Lucius Martin, the Deputy Mayor of Economic Development at the City of Long Beach on how the region is collaborating—or not—on delivering new green building projects and retrofitting existing buildings.

June 23, 2023

VX2023: Affordable Housing—The Vienna Model Panel Video

In this panel from VerdeXchange 2023, moderated by former Mayor of Culver City Alex Fisch, GGLO Architects' Gerhard Mayer, Global Policy Leadership Academy's Helmi Hisserich, LA Family Housing's Stephanie Klasky-Gamer, and the RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness's Jason Ward discuss if the Vienna affordable housing model could help build affordable housing on a large scale in California?