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.

As California brings the gas-powered car era to a close, let's remember: It was just awful enough, at just the right moment, to inspire a revolution in land use regulation.

A new report finds that Californians -- and especially Angelenos -- live in their homes longer than people anywhere else in the country. That's one of the many reasons why California has a housing crisis.

Maybe we're premature, but the signs are there.

As the recent fights over housing show, there are not "progressive" and "conservative" cities. There are just cities open to change and cities closed to change.

In a weird way, they actually increase local control. Planners have their work cut out for them. 

The great irony of the philanthropist's life was that he made his billions on sprawl -- and then poured it into making Los Angeles a more urban city.

T'he Blackstone Group and their ilk may be evil and exploitative. But they are not to blame for California's housing crisis.

A YIMBY lawsuit seeks to increase the Bay Area's housing allocation, but a court's schedule may not match up with the strict timeline set by the Dept. of Housing and Community Development. >>read more

It can't really be about the buildings. It must be about the people.

In an excerpt from Talk City, Bill Fulton recalls how difficult it was emotionally to deal with budget cuts in the last recession -- a clear concern as cities face revenue shortfalls again because of COVID-19.