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LA, SD Try To Maintain Downtown Affordability
24 September 2007 - 12:12pm | Author: Morris Newman
Just 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.
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Price: $2.95Automated Parking Coming To Built-Out City Near You
1 March 2007 - 1:00am | Author: Morris NewmanParking 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.
Price: $2.95Automated Parking Coming To Built-Out City Near You
1 March 2007 - 1:00am | Author: Morris NewmanParking 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.
Price: $2.95Plumas Lake: Deadly Deal May Save Lives
1 December 2006 - 1:00am | Author: Morris NewmanIt’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.
Price: $2.95The Good Neighbor Hospital
1 June 2006 - 12:00am | Author: Morris Newman“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.
Price: $2.95Maywood Wonders If The Park Is Worth The Pollution
1 January 2006 - 1:00am | Author: Morris NewmanMaking 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.
Price: $2.95Hawthorne Invites Developer To Save Municipal Airport
1 October 2005 - 12:00am | Author: Morris NewmanDeveloper Jeff Dritley acknowledges he did not set out to run a municipal airport when he first started talking to the City of Hawthorne two years ago.
Dritley, who is managing director of Kearny Real Estate Company, is a developer with industrial and office projects on his resume, not necessarily the bona fides for running a general aviation airport for profit. Yet Dritley had a very good reason for agreeing to assume management responsibilities for the airport late last year.
Price: $2.95Backlash Strikes The Sameness of Formula Retail
1 May 2005 - 12:00am | Author: Morris NewmanI recently had an unsettling experience in a parking lot in Lompoc. I was standing in the middle of an enormous asphalt parking lot, surrounded by large buildings emblazoned with the logos of national retail chains, and, for a split second, I didn't know where I was.
Price: $2.95Urban Infill Comes to Suburban Dublin
1 March 2005 - 1:00am | Author: Morris NewmanHere is a list of one-liners about suburbia, inspired by comedian Jeff Foxworthy, originator of the popular “you-know-you're-a-redneck-when” jokes.
You know you're in suburbia when: The only ethnic restaurants you can find are Italian and Chinese. The churches are all bunched together in a “religious-use” district. The synagogues have no Hebrew lettering on them, only English transliterations that make sense in no language whatsoever...
Price: $2.95Skateboarders Reinvent Awkward Places
1 January 2005 - 1:00am | Author: Morris NewmanBehold the common skateboard, a machine that can give new life to parks, especially those areas that previously seemed unusable. Little more than a plank of wooden laminate, this machine is shaped like a surfboard.
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