Land Use

Getty Amphitheater Nixed

A judge has ruled that zoning does not allow for an amphitheater to be built at the Getty Villa art museum in Pacific Palisades.

October 6, 2000 - The Los Angeles Times

Sprawl: You Love It, But Dare Not Speak It's Name

CNN features an in-depth debate between Peter Calthorpe, promoting new urbanism, and Peter Gordon and Harry Richardson defending sprawl.

October 5, 2000 - CNN

California To Use Water Under Mojave Desert

There is disagreement on the environmental safety related to drilling water from beneath the Mojave. Will a mechanical device resolve the problem?

October 4, 2000 - The Los Angeles Times

The Inner City And The Urban Future

The American city in the 21st Century: the view from Camden.

October 4, 2000 - Urban Land Magazine

Deer Create Airport Havoc

Deer are wandering into Humbolt County's airport runways causing risky situations for aircraft.

October 3, 2000 - The Sacramento Bee

CA Voters Want To Slow Growth

The process of initiative and referendum is California’s most peculiar institution. William Fulton explains why.

October 3, 2000 - California Planning and Development Report

Next Generation of National Parks

The next generation of National Parks will "commemorate less-pristinelandscapes, as well as recognize overlooked and ignoble moments of history. "

October 3, 2000 - The Christian Science Monitor

From the Earth, A Rare Mineral and Controversy

Proposed expansion of the Adirondack quarry operations worries opponents who fear loss of quality of life.

October 2, 2000 - San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Thirteen Cities Most At Risk Of Overbuilding

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has identified the thirteen US cities most at risk of overbuilding.

October 2, 2000 - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Luxury Housing Along Orange County Coast

After decades of controversy, lawsuits and threats, housing developments along Orange County's prime coastal areas are now moving forward.

October 1, 2000 - The Los Angeles Times

New Urbanism in the New Millennium

Peter Katz, author of The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community, takes a look at what new urbanism might look like in the future.

October 1, 2000 - Urban Land Magazine

San Diego May Form Sprawl Agency

A new agency dealing with sprawl and congestion may go before voters in 2002.

September 29, 2000 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Dense Housing, Buses Urged to Ease Traffic

In efforts to accommodate growth with population expected todouble over the next 20 years, local transportation officials andconsultants in Riverside County propose a fast moving shuttle system moving through densely populated communities.

September 29, 2000 - Press-Enterprise

A Plan That Could Change Boston Forever

Some say that this civic vision plan is the most responsible planning effort that's ever come out of Boston, and it could change the city forever.

September 29, 2000 - The Boston Globe

Are Billboards Visual Trash?

Kansas City columnist writes: "Show me a billboard, and I'll show you litter with a home."

September 29, 2000 - Kansas City Pitch Weekly

Best Urban Ideas In America

The Philadelphia News presents a list of what its editors found were the best ideas for cities in America.

September 28, 2000 - The Philadelphia Daily News

Chicago's Inner-City Industrial Development

Under the right circumstances, inner-city industrial development can find a market.

September 28, 2000 - Urban Land Magazine

Silicon Valley Towns Turn Anti-Growth

Redwood City, Palo Alto, Menlo Park consider stringent growth controls.

September 27, 2000 - Wired

Religious Camp Accused Of Sprawl

Plans for a large Christian camp in Lake County, Colorado are seriously testing the tenet 'Love thy neighbor', and raises questions of sprawl.

September 26, 2000 - The Denver Post

HUD Stalls LA Cornfield Project

HUD is withholding $12 million from the Los Angeles Chinatown Cornfield industrial development until an environmental impact report is completed.

September 26, 2000 - The Los Angeles Times

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