Richard Moe makes the case that there are many ways to implement green building practices, and preservation and reuse of older buildings may be greenest building practice of all.
Jim Bonar and the L.A. Community Design Center are a part of a dedicated and underappreciated group of community partners working to improve L.A.'s Skid Row.
Johanna Gullick, vice president and Los Angeles market manager for Union Bank of California, discusses the current climate for affordable housing finance and development in Southern Calfornia.
Santa Monica Planning Director Eileen Fogarty faces the task of improving congestion and jobs-housing balance through the city's Land Use and Circulation Element process.
As local politicians and media focus on L.A.'s billboard policy, Scenic America's Kevin Fry gives an unforgiving account of the city's outdoor advertising priorities.
WRCOG Executive Director Rick Bishop details the threat posed to Inland Empire homeowners by the foreclosure crisis; regional leaders try to minimize the impact of abandoned homes.
Spelling out the lost opportunity to improve infrastructure and air quality, Senator Lowenthal vows to maintain the broad coalition that engineered the port container fee legislation.
Mike Marelli, manager of renewable contract origination for SCE, lays out the utility's admirable renewable development practices and charts its direction toward looming RPS requirements.
A recent panel of experts assembled by USC's SPPD and Marshall School found surprising amounts of consensus about the causes of the real estate and credit markets meltdown.
