CP&DR Podcast: Interview with APA President Julia Lave Johnston

The California Chapter of the American Planning Association presented the following awards at its annual conference in Riverside this week

The American Planning Association bestowed its highest academic award on to an article by two California-based researchers who seek to describe the elusive relationship between California's job centers and housing.

The California APA presented 30 awards in 16 categories on October 3.

This week's APA conference is located across the street from the "happiest place on earth" -- with "place" in very ironic quotes. Here's what Disneyland, and Disney's latest "imagineering" efforts mean for planning today.

If you like books about cities, you'll want to tune in to CP&DR's special session on books at the California APA virtual conference on Monday Sept. 14 at 10:30. >>read more

Minneapolis recently abolished single-unit zoning citywide. Housing Advocate Anna Nelson, of Neighbors for More Neighbors, explains how California cities can do the same.

All the urban planners in the country are in Las Vegas this week, and it's clear they have a love/hate relationship with the place.

Vegas is kitschy and over the top, and at first glance it always looks like the least sustainable place on the planet. Vegas is acres of neon plastered across the front of 30-story casinos in the 100-degree desert – each casino more outlandishly upscale than the other – along with the occasional lake and 200-foot water fountain.

What is it about duplexes that make them such a popular topic? And why did only one CEQA case make the top five legal stories of the year?

Throughout California and beyond, distant suburbs and resort towns are seeing a surge in population -- and home sales. But will the trend stick after the pandemic?

The pandemic, racial injustice, an end to California's population growth -- has California planning ever seen a year like this before?

New head of Bay Area think tank discusses housing, tech, and the impact of the pandemic. >>read more

Low-cost transformation of streets to public -- and restaurant -- spaces may help enliven city neighborhoods and revive their sales tax bases.