As the Los Angeles City Planning Department continues its process of updating and releasing community and citywide zoning codes, Con Howe, former Los Angeles Director of City Planning from 1992 to 2005, provides TPR with an optimistic and rather bullish take on the current state of land use and urban planning.
TPR shares this overview of the City of LA's Low-Rise housing design competition, and highlights the prize winners' innovative models of sustainable residential architecture.
Alanna Mallon elaborates on the significance and necessity for the local land use regulation to significantly increase supply of permanent affordable housing in one of the nation’s most expensive and inflated housing markets.
Embarcadero Institute president and co-founder, Gab Layton reminds readers that when incentives are created for market-rate housing, Big Tech and real estate interest groups benefit at the expense of addressing the 'real' crisis: California has far too little affordable housing for the minimum wage-earners who live in metro areas.
Patrick Condon explicitly articulates how increasing density without affordability only further inflates urban land values to the benefit of speculators, resulting in nearly all of the value of individual labor and creative enterprise of entrepreneurs in regional economies to be absorbed as land wealth.
Alisa Orduña's insight on her city’s response to the pandemic and how COVID-19's disrupting they way cities and policymakers address homelessness and will approach public health, safety, and wellbeing going forward.
Donovan Rypkema and Adrian Scott Fine highlight myth-busting findings on the impacts of HPOZs on affordability, density, diversity, and economic resilience of neighborhoods across Los Angeles.
Asm. Richard Bloom and Tara Barauskas dive into the barriers to building affordable housing and whether recent legislation streamlining local planning, zoning, and permitting processes
Architects Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa discuss their exhibit and the challenges to planning and building affordable, livable density in Southern California today.
CityLab West Coast Bureau Chief Laura Bliss looks beyond the charged rhetoric of California's housing crisis to uncover what motivates both opponents and proponents of efforts to increase housing density throughout the state.
