Q&A
APA Award Winner Dave Brown
28 April 2008 - 10:19am | Author: Paul Shigley
Dave Brown of Calabasas is this year’s recipient of the American Planning Association’s leadership award for a planning advocate. A member of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy advisory committee since 1985 and a Calabasas planning commissioner since 1992, Brown has been involved in land use and natural resources issues in the area since the 1970s. He received the award in part for his “overlooked but instrumental” role in creating the 153,000-acre Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. For 45 years he has been a history professor at Los Angeles Valley College, where he still teaches two classes. Brown spoke with CP&DR Editor Paul Shigley in April. 
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Price: $2.95Q&A – Steve Lawton
28 December 2007 - 5:59pm | Author: Paul ShigleySteve Lawton is the community development director for the City of Hercules and active in the Congress for the New Urbanism. In this interview with CP&DR, Lawton discusses sustainable development, the limits of the suburban model, the difference between green building and green development, and more.
Price: $2.95An Interview With Mark Hinshaw
18 September 2007 - 9:49am | Author: CP&DR Staff
Seattle-based planner, architect and journalist Mark Hinshaw identifies a back-to-the-urban-core trend, in which people who have rejected suburban uniformity are choosing to live instead in dense, diverse urban environments. He explains his findings and theories in an interview with CP&DR.Price: $2.95 » read more | add to cart
Price: $2.95Q&A With Greg Chin
24 May 2007 - 9:26am | Author: Paul ShigleyIt is no secret that affordable housing is in short-supply in Santa Clara County. Recently, the Bay Area Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), Charities Housing Development Corporation, and the Institute for Metropolitan Studies at San Jose State University released a report, “Housing Silicon Valley: A 20 Year Plan to End the Affordable Housing Crisis,” to quantify the problem and suggest solutions. The study is available at the LISC website: www.bayarealisc.org.
The report led to the creation of a “blue ribbon commission” of housing experts and civic leaders that is scheduled to release an action plan in October. Greg Chin, program coordinator for LISC, helped write the report and is providing staff assistance to the commission. He spoke with CP&DR Editor Paul Shigley in May.
Price: $2.95Los Angeles Conservancy's Linda Dishman
1 February 2006 - 1:00am | Author: CP&DR StaffThe American Planning Association has named the Los Angeles Conservancy as the 2006 winner of the Daniel Burnham Award for the conservancy’s work in preserving cultural monuments, protecting historic districts and promoting historic preservation principles. The conservancy is the largest historic preservation organization in the United States.
Price: $2.95Q&A: Assemblyman Gene Mullin
1 August 2005 - 12:00am | Author: Paul ShigleyGene Mullin is chairman of the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development. He spoke with CP&DR Editor Paul Shigley during the Legislature’s summer recess.
Price: $2.95Q&A: Donald Shoup
1 May 2005 - 12:00am | Author: Paul ShigleyDonald Shoup is an urban planning professor at UCLA, where he headed the Institute of Transportation Studies from 1996 to 2001. For more than 20 years, Shoup has studied automobile parking policies. Recently, the American Planning Association published Shoup's new book, The High Cost of Free Parking, in which he condemns off-street parking requirements and argues for charging market-rate prices for curb parking.
Price: $2.95Q&A Naphtali Knox
1 February 2005 - 1:00am | Author: Paul ShigleyNaphtali Knox has been a planner since the late 1950s. Prior to starting his own consulting firm, Naphtali H. Knox & Associates, in 1981, he was a planner for the Air Force, the cities of Des Moines, Iowa, and Palo Alto, and the University of Chicago. In 2004, the California Chapter of the American Planning Association selected Knox for its leadership and service award. In March, he is scheduled to receive APA's national planning award for distinguished leadership by a professional planner.
Price: $2.95Q&A: Housing and Community Development Director Lucetta Dunn
1 July 2004 - 12:00am | Author: Paul ShigleyLucetta Dunn became director of the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) on June 1. She spoke with CP&DR Editor Paul Shigley in late June.
Price: $2.95Javier Mariscal of John Laing Homes
1 March 2004 - 1:00am | Author: Paul ShigleyJavier Mariscal is director of urban regeneration for John Laing Homes, where he helps one of California’s largest developers implement urban infill and reuse projects.
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