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Joel Kotkin's Jihad on Logic
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:44pmIn some urbanist circles, the name Joel Kotkin prompts groans and grimaces.
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I-880 cities seek a sense of “place”
Submitted by Dillon Goodson on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 10:20amAlong Interstate 880 in the Northern California county of Alameda, cities birthed during the post-World War II era of suburbanism have begun turning the clock back searching instead for a sense of “
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Reinventing the California Dream
Submitted by Joe Menard on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 10:28amNew Urbanist Rick Cole, currently the city manager of Ventura, CA, recently wrote an op-ed piece about restoring luster to the Golden Sta
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General Jerry Brown and his War on Sprawl
Submitted by Carl.Beien on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 12:50pmLongtime politician and current California Attorney General Jerry Brown has recently won a battle in his war against sprawl in his home state.
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A Breakdown of California's SB 375
Submitted by Carl.Beien on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 11:42amCP & DR has penned this neat, and extensive, breakdown of the new regional planning requirement guidelines that Gov. Schwarzenegger just signed into law.
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Nation's First Anti-Sprawl Legislation Adopted in California
Submitted by joel.vanderweele on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 9:34amL.A. Times: "California is about to adopt the nation's first legislation to control planet-warming gases by curbing sprawl.
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California Adopts State-wide Policy to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Submitted by joel.vanderweele on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 1:15pmJames Temple, of the San Francisco Chronicle, writes about one of the first state-level global warming plans to get serious about emission.
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Is California Ready for New Urbanism?
Submitted by crandell on Fri, 10/19/2007 - 4:48pmLeaders from CNU's Southern and Northern California chapter groups participated in a debate at the APA California chapter's annual conference earlier this month about whether California is ready to turn around it's development patterns. The consensus? The state still has a long way to go.
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Southern California Missing the Point on Global Warming
Submitted by Joe Menard on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 9:38amRick Cole, 2007 Charter Award juror and city manager of Ventura, CA, writes a poigniant criticism in the Los Angeles Times of Southern California's planning techniques and environmental strategies. The state remains overwelmingly suburban and auto-centric, and while some developers try to densify L... read more »
Conventional Beautification in Unconventional Locale
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 12:47pmThe problems associated with deindustrialization - crime, gangs, unemployment -have occured not just in central cities but also inner-ring suburbs where the post-war boom first expanded to in Southern California. Paramount, California, a stigmatized inner-ring suburb southeast of Los Angeles, is cur... read more »