In Golden Gates, Conor Dougherty chronicles the rise of the YIMBY movement and California's battle over housing -- with the aplomb of an East Bay skateboarder >>read more

Inland areas are still growing. But what does the trend mean for the state's long-term prosperity? >>read more

While many Bay Area cities resist growth, El Cerrito is booming with transit oriented plan on San Pablo Avenue >>read more

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

Bay Area's CASA Compact appears to be driving agenda in Sacramento. >>read more

SPUR's Gabe Metcalf recently announced his departure for The Committee for Sydney >>read more

While other tech companies have steered clear of California's housing debate, the CEO of Yelp has unabashedly supported housing development. What's different about Yelp? >>read more

Like a monster that’s been hiding in the basement for decades, rent control is rearing its head in the Bay Area. Whether it is an ugly countenance or a smiling face is a matter of perspective. >>read more

BEVERLY HILLS, May 2, 2016 - As the saying goes, when you're holding a hammer, the world looks like a nail. What if you have a 3-D printer instead of a hammer?

If you're Eric Schmidt, you build houses. >>read more

Whereas a Berkeley resident can cross from exuberance of Telegraph Avenue into the heart of the Cal campus in a few steps, UCLA is an auto-oriented campus surrounded by a moat of driveways, green space, and city streets. Its neighbors are some of the wealthiest and orneriest an institution could ever have the misfortune to live next to. The university, for all its academic heft, retreats from the city, and the city from it.

UCLA was an ironically illustrative venue for a talk by Michael Storper, lead author of "The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies," that I attended recently. Contrary to its expansive title, Storper's study concerns only Los Angeles and San Francisco. Given that both are booming Pacific Rim metropolises, it may be hard to figure out which is the "rise" and which is the "fall." >>read more