Amid national calls for social justice, especially for Black Americans, CP&DR welcomes a panel of Black planners for a candid discussion of how race and planning intersect in California.
Minneapolis recently abolished single-unit zoning citywide. Housing Advocate Anna Nelson, of Neighbors for More Neighbors, explains how California cities can do the same.
Leslie Kern's new book Feminist City will likely ring familiar with women planners -- and provide male planners crucial insights for making cities more welcoming and equitable for everyone.
California urbanism encompasses extremes: beauty and banality, wealth and poverty, diversity and segregation, aspiration and indifference. These dualities underly The Urban Mystique, the new book by CP&DR's Josh Stephens.
He fought planners and other bureaucrats for years to get the permits required to build pieces of public arts that vanished in a matter of days. He was messing with us.
In his new book, Josh Stephens plumbs the depths of California's good and bad -- and tries to find the reason why urban life there is so oddly compelling.
