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I agree that Boston is not its pier - the LA region is far denser than metro Boston, Dallas or Atlanta.

On earthquakes: I think the west coast systems are built to withstand an 8.0 - I wouldnt want to be in the trans-bay tunnel when the big one hits.

GW2500 Who said LA will become a west coast NY? I said metro had 100 million riders, comprable to BART, and that areas of it are as dense as anything in Boston. Your comment regarding Angelenos and public transportation is ignorant, please see this and other etries from Eric Morris...

GW2500: what makes the LA system illegitimate? It serves the same number of passengers annually as BART (about 100 million), which you suggest is legitimate. Also vashnook....: LA really cant be put in the same category as Dallas or Atlanta. LA is at least twice as dense as those 2 cities, and...

Kostof's discussion sounds far more nuanced then what was on here, and even then, his characterization of suburbanization as a departure from walking culture reflects his being an architectural historian. It's only one point of view, and it happens to be the dominant point of view on this board.

It's interesting that this discussion went straight to the car as the root of an urban/suburban bipolarity. I guess that's because this is a design-based crowd? Certainly there were suburbs before cars... and there are cities where cars are convenient ... and suburbs where cars are inconvenient...

John, The BU program is not accredited, and I don't know much about it. The accredited programs in MA are at Harvard, MIT, Tufts and UMass Amherst. MIT's is the strongest; it is regarded as one of the best programs in the county, along with UC Berkeley and UNC Chapel Hill. Generally these...

You're welcome Patrick! ... in my master's program I was fortunate enough to have a class that contextualized readings in three historical case studies ... we talked about rational vs. advocacy in a study of housing redevelopment in the 1960s south end, got more into radical planning when...

read john friedmann "Planning in the Public Domain" - I think that's where "rational planning" was coined. Is that not assigned? I think rational planning was actually best explained by richard babcock, even though he didn't use the term rational planning, when he said in The Zoning Game (a...

Hi Patrick, Where are you in school? Your planning degree is graduate I assume if you're taking a planning theory class. What kind of degree does your program offer? Some planning programs offer an MA, in which case they are more academic, and others offer a professional degree, like an MCP...

Re: Lovejoy Wharf How much would the mass of the existing building be expanded? How high is 155 feet above the height of the existing structure? Wouldn't it only detract morning sunlight from residents of strada on the west side of that building? Is that worse than having a dilapidated building...

You know I don't think it's awful, but it does look like a giant dollar sign! A boxy retro one - like a part of the set from "The Price is Right" - no? Come on down!

It's getting ripped here by a lot of people - it's disrespectful to the historic low-rise area, it's not where most activity is, it's ugly, disruptive construction, ... I say build it because it'll help a crap part of hollywood, it won't harm the residential area because it's on a big commercial...

Emerson's Hollywood extension campus .. new rendering http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/09/thom_mayne_brings_the_future_to_hollywood.php

or our current los angeles - with a more regulated transit system.

Exactly how much money do the authors of the 2nd and 3rd proposals imagine these future suburbanites (re-burbanites?) having? The densification of suburban areas is often the product of other areas becoming preferable - and so growing density in suburban areas often features declining incomes...

some recent finds "big city populations survive the housing crunch" from brookings. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0701_housing_frey.aspx and - florida shrank in the last year according to projections. http://www.newgeography.com/content/00961-report-florida-losing-population The...

Ya I guess the Boston one could include more. The LA one (which I have) includes plenty of muncipalities (beverly hills, san fernando, santa monica, west hollywood) and unincorporated areas that are not part of LA - maybe for aesthetic purposes, to create a solid shape without holes in it, I...

Here http://www.metrobostondatacommon.org/html/gallery.htm#1-09 I think mapc (metro area planning council) did it check out www.mapc.org

?I?ve always said the American dream should be a home - not homeownership,?? said Representative Barney Frank.... (losing his memory apparently) http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/08/16/president_shifts_focus_to_renting_not_owning/