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The GSD and other architecture schools really need to introduce something to educate architects on the virtues and how-to of public engagement. At the architecture school I'm most familiar with (because I was in it, albeit not for an architecture degree) ...the focus was highly theoretical...

ugh. I have zero problem with your perspective. I have a problem with the way you present it. All the time I go to lectures or presentations around LA where some esteemed architect argues such and such is the best neighborhood in Los Angeles, end of discussion. Inevitably I agree with them that...

I wonder if you know anything about Los Angeles or anywhere else that wasn't spoon-fed to you by elitist design fascists Kunstler or DPZ. As someone who does know much more, I can see how much of LA doesn't fit into your narrow perception of a pleasing environment. People who do share your...

anything besides dogma in the arsenal you will use to save us from all this non-urban decrepitude?

FLAindy, On here, people's definition of "urban" is based on the personal preferences they have as traditionalist aesthetes, that is to say, it is narrow, maybe arbitrary, takes little consideration of social or economic factors, or even the aesthetic sensibilities of many others, including a...

I don't know enough about the Portland UBG history, but it may well be that it was to motly to protect the agriculture industry. I know it was a factor, and I'm sure one that won some votes in what was then a conservative and more rural state. I'm trying to find it but can't ... I know there was...

"The difficult thing about land use policy is that depending on which way you look at things, and what you value more, there can almost always be an effective argument made in favor of or against a particular approach." Yes. Cox poses himself as an activist against land use regulation, though...

heh ... why don't you read anything by wendell cox. for example: http://www.newgeography.com/content/001414-atlanta-ground-zero-american-dream

Without Euclid ... meaning if Euclid had gone the other way? Probably not. All I'm saying is that cities did not have wait for Euclid to adopt zoning (in the modern sense, not what toby is talking about), and they did not.

The 1916 zoning code of NYC was comprehensive zoning, 10 years before Euclid. Euclid v Ambler was a test of zoning, it didn't create zoning. Hundreds of jurisdictions had zoning before Euclid. The districting ordinances of 19th and early 20th century california were not zoning, never said they...

I think the definitive date is 1916 when zoning was adopted in New York City. Use segregation schemes had been adopted earlier (for laundries in California going back to 1885) but these were not comprehensive in the way the new york's was - they didn't regulate bulk and density, and usually...

Well, build-out is a subjective term, which thanks to the direction of federal/state/local policies on urban growth over the last 80 years, is almost universally imagined in horizontal terms in the United States. I stress "imagined." If build-out is to have a technical definition, it is the...

glad you survived. the hills are treacherous.

have you seen chemosphere? it's about a mile east of laurel canyon on mullholland at the top of torreyson. you can get some good views of it from different parts of torreyson drive.

Re: New tower at Christian Science Church Plaza ugh - "i can have my cake and eat it too." these people move in somewhere and then demand nobody else does, because that's so fair. they treat development like a dirty word even though they also live in development. nowhere in their deed does it...

this assumption has been debunked many times by real estate specialists, not just housing advocates.

zoning board of appeal. every city that has zoning has one, variably titled board of zoning appeals, board of zoning adjustment, etc.

Century City grew up as many suburban "edge cities" - serving the suburban west side, west valley and south bay populations - and certainly many people from the city to the east too. Commerce had been decentralizing from downtown since the 1920s, when wilshire boulevard west from downtown was...