Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Urban Design

Guillermo Penalosa Tries to Bring Bogota Style Planning the U.S.

By Damien Newton | Dec 17, 2008 | No Comments

via Salon’s How the World Works If you have seven minutes of free time, you should check out this video above. If not, make time. Recently, Guillermo Penalosa, the former Commissioner of Parks, Sports and Recreation for the city of Bogotá, spoke at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club about the changes that have gone on in […]

City Holding Hearings on Green Planning Ordinance for LA River

By Damien Newton | Dec 10, 2008 | 1 Comment

The City’s Vision for the LA River in the Coming Decades The Los Angeles Department of City Planning will be holding hearings this Friday and Monday on an ordinance that would provide new guidelines for development on both public and private land adjacent to the river. If approved, the new River Improvement Overlay District would […]

How to Build a Better Infrastructure Plan

By Ben Fried | Dec 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

Economists and lawmakers are batting around increasingly large figures for the Obama admin’s upcoming stimulus package — 300 billion dollars, 500 billion, a trillion? Whatever the final sum, a big cut will get plowed into transpo projects. The question is whether all that money will perpetuate an outdated system or lead toward a future where […]

AIA Asks: Is It Time to Ban Billboards?

By Damien Newton | Nov 12, 2008 | 12 Comments

This evening,the American Institute of Architects will host a forum debating whether Los Angeles should consider banning new billboards. In the event announcement the AIA notes: Even as the City struggles to identify and regulate existing off-site signage, it moves forward with creative sign districts and signage supplemental use districts that add new off-site signs. […]

San Joaquin Valley Doing “About Half” of What They Can for Smart Growth

By Damien Newton | Oct 30, 2008 | 1 Comment

A Drive Up Highway 99 Shows Some Signs of Smart Growth Via Carfree USA: An exhaustive two year survey by the Modesto Bee in cooperation with the Great Valley Center and a class of California State University, Stanislaus, pollsters shows that LA County and the OC aren’t the only Southern California counties struggling with Smart […]

Transit Blamed for Suburban St. Louis Crime

By Brad Aaron | Oct 30, 2008 | 3 Comments

Last week Freakonomics picked up a story from the Riverfront Times that connects an uptick in shoplifting, fighting and other crimes in the St. Louis suburbs to a two-year-old expansion of the city’s MetroLink rail system. Ask virtually any store manager at the Saint Louis Galleria about shoplifting, and you’ll invariably get two responses: One, […]

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