Plasco's Alisdair McLean explains how waste-to-energy technology could be a crucial component in achieving regional waste reduction and renewable energy portfolio goals.
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development Professor Dowell Myers presents evidence that immigrants can fill the crucial economic roles left vacant by an aging population.
L.A. City Public Works Commissioner Paula Daniels explains the precendent-setting decision by the Army Corps of Engineers declaring the L.A. River a non-navigable waterway.
Ventura City Manager Rick Cole argues that California's leadership in greenhouse gas emissions mitigation will set a new development standard and change the way Americans live.
Architecture critics from the San Francisco Chronicle and L.A. Times debate the relative merits and lessons to be learned from the West Coast's world class cities.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) addresses a gathering in Washington D.C., hosted by New York's Regional Plan Association, about the need for a change in the way Americans value infrastructure.
The chair of the City Council Transportation Committee hinges traffic mitigation on creative funding solutions and extensive partnerships between the public and private sectors.