Successful Buildings For A Better City
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L.A. can learn from a great variety of urban building types around the world.
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Urban Design
Young Planners: How Millennials Can Help Los Angeles in the Coming Years
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While more millennials are moving to places like Charlotte, Houston and Austin, Los Angeles saw a 7.4 percent decrease in millennial residents between 2005 and 2015. This comes as no surprise to many. Urban planners have a right to be worried about this phenomenon.
Previewing This Week’s New Urbanism Film Festival
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This week the annual New Urbanism Film Festival returns to Los Angeles. The grand opening is Thursday night! There are plenty of screenings, plus walking tours, storytelling, and more. Event details at NUFF website. Below are five recommended film screenings that Streetsblog L.A. readers should check out. 1. The festival’s Thursday opening night features the U.S. premiere […]
We’ve Had a Hundred Years of Zoning and the World Is Getting Worse
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This week marks a noteworthy anniversary. The first city-scale zoning law in the United States was enacted on July 25, 1916, in New York City. The New York Times tells the story in an article titled Zoning Arrived 100 Years Ago. It Changed New York City Forever. According to the Times, the law: aimed to prevent an increase […]
Lancaster’s Livability: An Interview with Planning Director Brian Ludicke
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The city of Lancaster, population 160,000, is the fifth most populous city in L.A. County. It occupies about one hundred square miles in the Antelope Valley, separated from the L.A. Basin by the San Gabriel Mountains. Lancaster is at the northern terminus of Metrolink’s Antelope Valley line, a two-hour train ride from downtown Los Angeles. Though it is […]
L.A.’s Urban Future: More Places Where I Want to Sit
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I sometimes dream about a different Los Angeles; not the sprawling congested city, but an L.A. that is a series of walkable villages, like for example Santa Monica. They would be full of life and economic vitality, with corner stores, markets, coffee shops, plazas and parks. And they would all be connected by rail lines; streetcars that can whisk us away […]