The "retail apocalypse" has claimed a particularly unfortunate victim: the homegrown outdoor equipment chain Adventure 16. California's cities and wilderness are both worse off.

Advances in mobility technologies -- from electric cars to robotic shopping carts -- are dazzling. But planners will be hard-pressed to predict which ones will prevail.

What's in the future: A lot of talk about low-VMT and high-VMT zones, renewed discussion of TDM, maybe some VMT banks -- and, yes, still a lot of LOS analysis, just not under CEQA.

Leading planners and developers give tips on how to help housing developers move their projects forward. One important idea: Don't become clamshells during contentious public hearings.

Cities have gotten used to Uber and Lyft. AB 5's passage may send planners and developers back to the drawing board >>read more

Maybe if we made our neighborhoods more walkable and livable, we wouldn't want to increase our carbon footprint by flying to Europe all the time. >>read more

Cars are a hassle and walking is too far, so these intermediate modes need a right of way, whether they are bikes, scooters, Segways or vehicles that haven’t been invented yet. >>read more

The nondescript outer suburb of Dublin bears the distinction of California's fastest-growing city >>read more

A proposed monumental tower in San Jose would take urbanism in the wrong direction >>read more

Water influences urban planning only in the broadest sense. It doesn’t tell us where to build or in what configuration. But it determines how many of us can live here. The Colorado River is the biggest determinant of the all. >>read more

Their jurisdictions are different. But their problems are pretty similar -- especially on housing. >>read more

Santa Monica's Gleam Davis unabashedly endorses more housing. >>read more

As a piece of urbanism, Newsom’s revised experiment in high speed rail will be fascinating, and perhaps revelatory. >>read more