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Are any big regional developers talking about this? I would think not, probably because they're not taking this very seriously - see tobyjug's posts from 2/7/09 at the start of this thread.

novelty architecture ... more from china: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200901/20090103/article_386745.htm http://www.good.is/post/welcome-to-the-oc/

speaking of dicking around in the desert, a little south of bombay beach is slab city on the eastern side of salton sea. it has to be the most bizarre community in america, makeshift tent/shack/RV town built on the ruins of an abandoned military base. artist communes, gangsters, libretarian...

oooo a failed exurb of the mojave/colorado deserts. then there are the not so failed exurbs. It's southern california's frontier. migrant agricultural communties, working class suburbs, desert trailer parks, hippie communes, resorts, drifters, loners, snowbirds, meth for all, secretive military...

good point on britain czsz. on sprawl though - people may not advocate for it directly, but they do when they support zoning and environmental regulation that displaces development to fringe locations, when they demand low gas prices and cheap and plentiful parking, and when federal housing...

Re: Suffolk Dorms / Modern Theatre The NY Post is generally better for tabloid puns but the inappropriateness/amazingness of the herald the day after michael jackson died (fade to blacko) will be hard to top.

hm ... maybe an administrator could start a poll? What are you primarily interested in/your training/ your profession? Architecture/Urban Design, Transportation/Land Use Planning, Real Estate Development, Economic Development, Law, Psychology, Sociology ...? The goal isn't to pigeon hole...

you can't deny the power of statistics to describe a population. there are plenty of questions to ask in regards to statistical evidence, i'm afraid i don't understand the merits of this one. this whole conversation reminds me of a friend of mine in architecture who recently raised the question...

Justin7 I brought up New Urbanism because it came to mind, and that's ok. what forum stays exactly on track? Bburden: No. Tell me about it.

I don't understand why people are so infatuated with Seaside. It is not really different from the planned unit developments that had been occurring around the country for nearly 30 years before it. It does nothing to challenge the dominant pattern of urbanization in all of its sprawling glory...

The Chinese government has been chipping away at the country's economic socialism since Deng Xiaopeng, even as it maintains strict authority over how it is done and what Chinese people can say about it. Now even most of the global private contracts for water provision are in China - to French...

I'm sure this will be wildly successful as well. I didn't say it was wrong, I said it was ridiculous, it makes me laugh, and i appreciate it for doing that. It's a design marketing tool for a PUD. This stuff has been around forever (nobody ever denied that walking to things was convenient)...

certainly. it's your basic suburban planned use development writ large with different facades tacked on, and it will function as a suburban planned use development. it's just like celebrity in kissimmee. i'm sure it's set off a 6 lane freeway too. i'm not saying it should have been done any...

wow. ridiculous. assuming the church is not a church, what do you think is in the church?

word. The pacific electric worked wonderfully way back when, because even though LA and its satellite cities covered a significant area, everything was still focused on downtown. Now downtown LA is just one of many many employment centers, some of which are rather diffuse in themselves. Then...

CEQA was created to cover private projects with the type of environmental assessment that federal agency projects required through NEPA. CEQA requires an environmental assessment with a few exceptions, for example rebuilding destroyed structures (although this may only be if they are under a...

That's right Patrick about it being just a zoning proposal, but I wouldn't place CA in the development friendly category. Environmental regulation here has trumped similar efforts anywhere else in the country for the last 40 years (see California Environmental Quality Act 1970 and California...

You are exactly right commuter guy. Los Angeles is hemmed in. Also the cost of water makes large yards prohibitively costly, so most developers historically just haven't provided them. East coast sized yards are a rarity outside of the wealthiest areas. (Once I was on a flight from Boston to LA...

where do you get your numbers GW2500? LA proper: 469 square miles, 3.8 million, 8200 per square mile Boston proper: 48 square miles, .6 million, 12,500 per square mile LA metro: 4,850 square miles, 12.9 million, 2,665 per square mile Boston metro: 4,600 square miles, 4.4 million, 947 per...

Pierce: when you're talking about transit, you are necessarily talking about a metropolitan area - I've never seen estimates of transit share by city. Blade Blitz: I know we've been over it before and people still just can't get away from a negative image and look at the facts about southern...