whats-smart-about-smart-growth

You can tell it's going to be The Silly Season in Los Angeles, from now to November, when Antonio Villaraigosa, whose growth-at-any-cost development beliefs have added tens of thousands of crowded new apartments to this overbuilt city, blames L.A.'s attention-getting traffic on the War in Iraq. Yep. He actually told......

It’s the season for journalism awards, and over the past two weeks L.A. Weekly has emerged with a significant number of fresh honors in four different contests. In the AltWeekly Awards, jointly administered by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, L.A. Weekly came away......

SENIOR CITY PLANNER Jane Blumenfeld must have known something was up when about a dozen “observers” at a “workshop” about the city’s plans to create more housi...

Soon after taking the job of director of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning in 2006, Gail Goldberg made a declaration that let slip how City Hall is allowing developers to pursue a building frenzy straight out of the storied tale Chinatown. Said Goldberg, newly arrived here from a......

In some ways, Los Angeles already resembles Mexico City. Both are sprawling, polluted and diverse. And the comparisons run deeper than what's evident on an...

Praised SpiritsLast week, final winners were announced in two journalism contests. The following Weeklyites took first-place AltWeekly Awards in a contest sponsored by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies: Jeffrey Anderson for News Story, Short Form (a series of news pieces); Seven McDonald for Column (“24/Seven”); Jonathan Gold for Food Writing/Criticism;......

Click the image to download a full pdf of the mapThe Los Angeles City Council and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have embraced the concept of “smart growth,” a plan to concentrate multistory, “mixed use” housing — stores and restaurants on the ground, apartments or condos above — on or near transit......