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Planning Commissioner Reflects on Life in the O.C.
Back in December, Hunting Beach Planning Commissioner Joe Shaw wrote an op/ed for Street Heat about the challenges in trying to do smart growth planning in the O.C. Now that Shaw is a candidate for Huntington Beach City Council, it seemed like a good time to blow the dust off this excellent piece for all the readers that have joined us in 2008.
May 7, 2008
5 Lessons Every Transportation Engineer Should Learn
When Nicholas Whitaker and I went on a car ride with Deborah Murphy, she expressed exasperation that transportation engineers are still so concerned with "improving" roads as the key to more efficient transportation. Sometimes, because the readers of this blog and many of the planners and engineers to whom I speak are more progressive, it's easy to forget how far we have to go to change the culture of transportation engineers.
May 6, 2008
Streetsblog Rewind: Transportation Engineer Looks at the Lakers
As some of you know, I'm in Baltimore for a wedding today and am not going to have time to update the website. My colleagues with Streetsblog might be posting some material on the LA Streetsblog site later today, but to make certain you don't have to go an entire day without the original content I know you all love, I'm republishing one of the pieces from the Southern California Voices Series done by some guest writers at the Street Heat blog between Christmas and the New Year.
April 25, 2008
Livable Places Closes Its Doors
One of the leaders of the battle to reclaim Los Angeles' streets is closing its doors after seven years at the close of business today. Livable Places, the organization that built the Olive Court complex in Long Beach, created the "Making Connections" Program in Chinatown, and brough smart growth speakers to Los Angeles such as Gordon Price, will be no more.
April 15, 2008
A Lesson from Barcelona from 1859
A Map of the Barcelona of the Future from The Project for the Reform and Extension of Barcelona in 1859
April 2, 2008