Innovations
Small Solutions: West Hollywood Devises Parking Credits Plan
By Josh Stephens on 15 May 2012 - 10:33amWhen Axl Rose first stepped off the bus from Indiana, took the stage at the Whisky, and screeched out the opening lines of “Welcome to the Jungle,” he probably wasn’t thinking about parking. But he might as well have been.
Low-Cost Housing Goes Affordably Green in Chula Vista
By Josh Stephens on 8 March 2010 - 5:48amHey you, Mr./Ms. Conventional Apartment Developer! Yes, you. Don’t attempt to ignore me by rolling up your construction–loan documents and sticking them in your ears.
Riverside Stretches Federal Foreclosure Aid
By Paul Shigley on 31 December 2008 - 10:33amThe City of Riverside's plan for spending $6 million in federal aid for foreclosures promises participation in nearly every category of rescue listed by the the Department of Housing and Urban Development, including rehabilitation, readying properties for sale to homeowners, and even demolishing properties that are too far gone and selling the land to Habitat for Humanity, the volunteer home building group.
Lindsay Executes Ambitious Ideas On Tight Budget
By Paul Shigley on 31 July 2008 - 9:18amWhen an untimely freeze destroyed the Tulare County citrus crop two years ago, costing many people their farm labor jobs, the City of Lindsay responded with a program modeled on the Works Project Administration. The city built a number of projects, the most novel of which was the conversion of an empty fruit-packing plant into a 172,000-square-foot sports and fitness complex.
LA, SD Try To Maintain Downtown Affordability
By William Fulton on 24 September 2007 - 12:12pmJust as a well-aimed bowling ball can be expected to knock down all ten pins and boost a bowler to a top score, many planners believe that a well-written zoning ordinance can steer the housing market toward socially beneficial ends. There is a difference between a bowling lane, however, and a downtown area.
Automated Parking Coming To Built-Out City Near You
By Urban Insight on 1 March 2007 - 1:00amParking is the demon of urban design. Like a gargoyle on a tower thumbing its nose at passers-by below, California’s inflexible parking requirements seem to mock developers, housing advocates and city officials alike.
Automated Parking Coming To Built-Out City Near You
1 March 2007 - 1:00amParking is the demon of urban design. Like a gargoyle on a tower thumbing its nose at passers-by below, California’s inflexible parking requirements seem to mock developers, housing advocates and city officials alike.
Plumas Lake: Deadly Deal May Save Lives
1 December 2006 - 1:00amIt’s a little hard to make out the houses in aerial photographs of the 1997 flood in south Yuba County. Only after a minute or two do we realize that we are not looking at floating detritus, but at the rooftops of homes nearly submerged in the brown water.
The Good Neighbor Hospital
1 June 2006 - 12:00am“Thank God for hospitals,” I said to myself a few weeks ago while speeding to the local emergency room, doubled over in the back of an ambulance. Only after the painkillers had deadened a hitherto-undetected kidney stone could I begin to think about hospitals from an urban-design standpoint.
Maywood Wonders If The Park Is Worth The Pollution
1 January 2006 - 1:00amMaking a public park out of a Superfund site is a rarity. If Maywood, a city in the old industrial belt of South Los Angeles County, ultimately succeeds in creating a 7.3-acre park along the Los Angeles River, the result would be inspirational.