Trump deemed the landmark civil rights agreement “illegal DEI and environmental justice policy.”
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Judy Chang is a planner for the New York City Department of Transportation. Previously, she interned at Planetizen after graduating from UC Irvine in 2008, where she studied Psychology and Urban and Regional Planning. She continued contributing news stories to Planetizen while earning a Master's in Urban Planning from Columbia University GSAPP, which she obtained in 2012.
On Tuesday, the California High-Speed Rail Authority announced that the cost of the project has tripled to nearly $99 billion, and federal funds for it don't exist yet--prompting some legislators' support to fizzle.
Created in 2003, a pact between rural Imperial Valley to provide water to San Diego has become mired in litigation due to its potential effects on the Salton Sea. But just nixing the deal isn't so easy, as Tony Perry reports.
Last week, local officials announced that the troubled city's largest employers, including three hospitals and a university, will begin offering incentives to lure workers into buying homes in the area. Geoff Mulvihill reports.
At the Urban Land Institute conference this week, Donald Bren, Chairman of the Irvine Company, cites lack of capital and government and environmental regulation as reasons for this.
The Milan apartment building will feature a tree on each balcony, at only 5% of the construction costs. Christopher Woodward takes us deeper into the project and others in the "living architecture" movement.
